Live Auction 6574Andrew Wyld: Connoisseur Dealer
David Cox, Sen., O.W.S. (Birmingham 1783-1859)
Lot 180

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

On the Scheldt, Holland (recto); and A pencil sketch (verso)

Closed10 July 2012

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GBP 8,750

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David Cox, Sen., O.W.S. (Birmingham 1783-1859)
On the Scheldt, Holland (recto); and A pencil sketch (verso)
signed and dated 'D. COX. 1826' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with touches of bodycolour and with scratching out on paper
5¾ x 8¾ in. (14.6 x 22.3 cm.)

with Agnew's, London, 1998, no. 60.

Specialist note

In 1826 Cox embarked with his son and his brother-in-law Mr Gardener on a tour to Belgium, a trip he subsequently extended into Holland. Gardener was an agent for the sale of Government Ordnance Maps and had a government commission to view a large world map recently published in Brussels. In Brussels Cox happened upon Herefordshire friends who urged him to join them in their carriage, travelling on to Ghent and Antwerp. From there they progressed to Dort, Rotterdam, Delft, Amsterdam and Haarlem. Along the way, Cox executed studies of the waterways.