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Richard Parkes Bonington (Nottingham 1802-1828 London)
Lot 105

Richard Parkes Bonington (Nottingham 1802-1828 London)

Fishermen in a stormy sea, Le Crotoy, Picardie, Northern France

Closed5 July 2016

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Richard Parkes Bonington (Nottingham 1802-1828 London)
Fishermen in a stormy sea, Le Crotoy, Picardie, Northern France
signed 'R P Bonington' (lower left, on the side of the boat)
pencil and watercolour with scratching out
8 x 10 3/8 in. (20.4 x 26.4 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 12 November 1996, lot 49.
with The Bridge Gallery, Southampton.

Specialist note

The present drawing shows the same view, but taken from the middle of the estuary, as in Newton Fielding's aquatint after Bonington for J.F. Ostervald's Excursions sur les côtes et dans les ports de France (see P. Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington, exhibition catalogue, New Haven, 1992, pp. 98-99, no. 14). It is similar in style and technique and must date from the same period, 1823-5.