Watercolour
Colonel John Crozier
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1720 - 1740
Materials
Paper, Wood
Measurements
282 x 332 mm
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1336393
Summary
Watercolour drawing - Written in pencil on reerse of backboard: 'Watercolour by John Crozier Esq, Royal Artillary'. Landscape with river and castle tower in the distance with trees and a figure in the foreground. Plain wooden black frame. In notebook no.5, page 62 (1340945.5) Charles Wade refers to: 'Mermaid no. 7 8 Two Watercolours. one a scene with ruined building by a river, & a distant hillside landscape drawn by a Col.Richard Lloyd, whose eldest daughter Bridget married Augustine Bulwer D.D. Their son Augustine Earle Lloyd Bulwer married 14 May 1833 Mary Blanche (his first cousin) dau. of Revd. Ed. Bulwer of Sall, Norfolk. ii. Picture of Trees on a river side painted by Colonel John Crozier who was a friend of Col. Rd. Lloyd of Bawdeswell, Norfolk. 13½” x 10¾”' Hand written label states in reference to inscription 'Handwriting of Bridget Bulwer (nee Lloyd). Colonel John Crozier was a friend of Colonel Richard Lloyd of Bawdeswell, Norfolk'. 'c.1760'.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.
Marks and inscriptions
John Crozier Esq, Royal Artillery
Makers and roles
Colonel John Crozier, artist
References
Wade, 1944: Charles Paget Wade, Contents of Snowshill Manor. Volume 5 Second Floor, 1944, Page 62