Live Auction 6574Andrew Wyld: Connoisseur Dealer
Alexander Cozens (Russia 1717-1786 London)
Lot 47

Alexander Cozens (Russia 1717-1786 London)

A ruined barn; and A cottage beside a ruined castle

Closed10 July 2012

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GBP 2,000

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Alexander Cozens (Russia 1717-1786 London)
A ruined barn; and A cottage beside a ruined castle
brush and brown ink on brown paper
1¾ x 2¾ in. (4.4 x 7 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 14 December 1938, lot 33.
with Agnew's, London, until 1941.
E. Jacobs.
with Agnew's, London, 1952, where purchased by
Miss S. Palmer, 1953.
with Agnew's, London, 2003, no. 4.

Specialist note

These small Italian landscapes are similar in size to a set of twelve prints of Small Landscapes with Italianate Buildings and Ruins etched by William Austin (1721-1820) after Cozens, which may have been used as models for Cozens pupils, however these two drawings were not engraved (for Austin's etchings see K. Sloan, Alexander and John Robert Cozens, New Haven and London, 1986, pp. 41, 44-45).