Live Auction 6106Christie's Interiors
Christie’s roundel
Lot 812

William Anderson (Sutherland 1757-1837)

Ashside, Borrowdale; and Rossthwaite Bridge (both illustrated)

Closed29 May 2012

Estimate

GBP 1,000–1,500

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William Anderson (Sutherland 1757-1837)
Ashside, Borrowdale; and Rossthwaite Bridge (both illustrated)
the first inscribed 'Ashside, Burrowdale [sic]' (verso) and numbered 'No. 4 (?)' (verso); the second inscribed 'Rossthwaite Bridge' (lower left) and further inscribed 'Rosthwaite Bridge, Burrowdale [sic]' (verso) and numbered 'No. 39' (verso)
pencil and watercolour, on paper
7½ x 9¾ in. (19 x 24.8 cm.); and 7 3/8 x 9¾ in. (18.8 x 24.8 cm.) (2)

Specialist note


William Anderson is best known as a marine painter but was a more diverse artist than that, as is demonstrated by these Lake District watercolours. Rosthwaite is south of Derwentwater, in Borrowdale. No site by name of Ashside is noted on modern maps in the region of Derwentwater and Borrowdale, but the place depicted by Anderson may be Ashness.