Live Auction 20686Old Masters Part II: Paintings, Sculpture, Drawings and Watercolours
WILLIAM DAY (LONDON 1764-1807)
Lot 195

WILLIAM DAY (LONDON 1764-1807)

Dolmelynllyn Falls near Dolgellau, Wales

Closed8 December 2023

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GBP 3,000–5,000

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WILLIAM DAY (LONDON 1764-1807)
Dolmelynllyn Falls near Dolgellau, Wales
signed and dated 'WDay/ 1792' (lower right)
pencil, pen and grey ink and watercolour on paper
13 3⁄8 x 18 5⁄8 in. (34 x 47.3 cm.)

Unidentified British Collector (L.4781).

Specialist note


This drawing is stamped with a collectors mark composed of a leopard or a lion, with a banner beneath holding the motto 'Tenax in Fide' which translates as 'held in faith'. This motto seems to have belonged to Horace James Smith (1829-1907), later Bosanquet-Smith, and also to the Abel-Smith family, but it is not known to whose collecting it relates.