Live Auction 19450Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours including a Fine Collection of Old Master Prints
DAVID COX, SEN., O.W.S. (BIRMINGHAM 1783-1859)
Lot 107 PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF NINA R. AND ARTHUR A. HOUGHTON, JR. (LOTS 94-97 AND 100-129)

DAVID COX, SEN., O.W.S. (BIRMINGHAM 1783-1859)

Calais beach with shrimpers and a dog

Closed6 July 2021

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GBP 3,500

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DAVID COX, SEN., O.W.S. (BIRMINGHAM 1783-1859)
Calais beach with shrimpers and a dog
pencil and watercolour heightened with bodycolour and with scratching out
6 x 8 ¾ in. (15.2 x 22.2 cm.)

with Agnew's, London, where purchased for the present collection.

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This drawing dates from Cox's last trip to the Continent, when he concentrated his time on the three French ports of Calais, Boulogne, and Dieppe. Cox more frequently depicted shrimpers in Wales and the north of England in the latter part of the 1830s and into the 1840s.