Honfleur

c. 1821

Richard Parkes Bonington

Artist, British, 1802 - 1828

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    brown wash over graphite on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Donald Stone

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 9 × 14.4 cm (3 9/16 × 5 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.117.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Christie's, South Kensington, 30 May 1990, part of no. 139; (James Mackinnon, London); to Donald Stone, New York, April 1992; gift to NGA in 2018.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2023

  • Drawing in Britain, 1700 - 1900: New Additions to the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Bibliography

1991

  • Noon, Patrick. Richard Parkes Bonington: 'on the pleasure of painting'. Exh. cat. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, and Petit Palais, Paris, 1991: under no. 16.

2008

  • Noon, Patrick. Richard Parkes Bonington: The Complete Paintings. New Haven, 2008: no. 25 (repro), and under no. 80..

Inscriptions

center verso in graphite: No. 2; No. 22 [crossed out]

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