Live Auction 14452Old Master & British Drawings & Watercolours
Peter de Wint, O.W.S. (Stone, Staffordshire 1784-1849 London)
Lot 117

Peter de Wint, O.W.S. (Stone, Staffordshire 1784-1849 London)

An extensive view of Exeter, Devon, from across the River Exe

Closed5 July 2017

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GBP 6,250

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Peter de Wint, O.W.S. (Stone, Staffordshire 1784-1849 London)
An extensive view of Exeter, Devon, from across the River Exe
watercolour with gum arabic, heightened with white and with scratching out
12¾ x 39¼ in. (32.5 x 99.7 cm.)

Mrs Day, 1884.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 17 November 2005, lot 60.

Specialist note

Although De Wint made several tours through Britain, he rarely visited the West Country. There is a sketch of Lynmouth in an album in the British Museum dated 22 September 1841 (1913,0524.14), and the present watercolour probably dates from the same tour.