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RICHARD PARKES BONINGTON (ARNOLD, NOTTINGHAMSHIRE 1802-1828 LONDON)
The ruins of Chateau d'Harcourt, near Lillebonne
signed 'RPBonington.' (lower left) and numbered 'No 590' (verso)
pencil and watercolour, with scratching out on paper
858 x 7 in. (22 x 17.8 cm.)
Provenance
Nicos Dhikeios (L.3529).
Literature
P. Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington, the complete paintings, New Haven and London, 2008, p. 103, no. 37.
Exhibited
London, Martyn Gregory, An Exhibition of British Watercolours 1750-1940, cat. 75, 16 November - 3 December 1999, no. 55.
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Dating to around 1821-22, the present drawing was executed on Bonington's first Normandy tour, along with two known wash drawings of Lillebonne, and an untraced watercolour, Vue prise a Lillebonne, which was exhibited at the 1822 Salon.

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