Live Auction 1187A Life's Devotion: The Collection of the Late Mrs T.S. Eliot
David Cox, Sen., O.W.S. (Birmingham 1783-1859)
Lot 279

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

Figures walking on a country track

Closed20 November 2013

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GBP 4,750

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David Cox, Sen., O.W.S. (Birmingham 1783-1859)
Figures walking on a country track
signed and dated 'David Cox/1834' (lower left)
pencil and watercolour heightened with touches of bodycolour, on paper
7¼ x 10.5/8 in. (18.4 x 27 cm.)

Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 15 November 1990, lot 128.

Specialist note

The present watercolour demonstrates the beginnings of his mature style, with its bold brushwork and energetic pencil line and is typical of the work Cox was producing in the mid 1830s.