Lancaster: Peace and War

Provenance

William Leech; sold, Christie's, London, 1887, Leech sale. Sold by Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, to Stephen G. Holland [notes in curatorial file]. Sold, Christie's, London, June 26, 1908, Holland sale, to Thomas Agnew and Sons [London 1989 auc. cat.]. Sydney Holland, 1924. Frank Gaskell; by descent to his sons, Ernest and Roger Gaskell; sold, Sotheby's, London, November 16, 1989, lot 82, to Thomas Agnew and Sons [notes in the curatorial file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1990.

Lancaster: Peace and War

David Cox, the elder

1842

Accession Number

76306

Medium

Watercolor, with touches of gouache, black chalk, and scraping, selectively varnished with gum arabic, on cream wove paper

Dimensions

49.7 × 76 cm (19 5/8 × 29 15/16 in.)

Classification

watercolor

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by Dr. William D. Shorey and the H. Karl and Nancy von Maltitz Endowment