Live Auction 5688Old Master & Early British Drawings and Watercolours
David Cox, Sen., O.W.S. (Birmingham 1783-1859)
Lot 141

David Cox, Sen., O.W.S. (Birmingham 1783-1859)

Travellers at a signpost on a windy heath - evening

Closed3 July 2012

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GBP 5,625

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David Cox, Sen., O.W.S. (Birmingham 1783-1859)
Travellers at a signpost on a windy heath - evening
signed and dated 'David Cox. 1851' (lower left)
pencil, watercolour and bodycolour with gum arabic and with scratching out on oatmeal paper
10½ x 14½ in. (26.7 x 36.8 cm.)

with Agnew's, London, 1999.
with Andrew Wyld, London, where purchased by the present owner.

Specialist note

One of David Cox's atmospheric late watercolours, the present evening scene is impressionistic in technique and rich in colour. The composition incorporates elements of Keep the Left Road and Wind, Rain, and Sunshine, the latter a subject being one that had occupied Cox since he saw Turner's Rain, Steam and Speed at the Royal Academy in 1844. In these late watercolours of travellers on windy heaths and moors the topography is never identified, although Cox's biographer Solly believed that the large (and related) The Cross Roads (1849) was based on the scenery of Carrington Moss near Sale in Cheshire.