Wooded Mountain Landscape with Cattle by a River
David Cox, the Elder (Birmingham 1783 - Harborne 1859)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1850 (signed and dated)
Materials
Watercolour on grey paper
Measurements
267 x 368 mm (10 ½ x 14 ½ in)
Order this imageCollection
Peckover House, Cambridgeshire
NT 781338
Summary
Watercolour on grey paper, Wooded Mountain Landscape with Cattle, by David Cox the elder (Birmingham 1783 – Harborne 1859), signed and dated, lower left, 1850. Three cattle by river with wooded mountain beyond. Gilt frame, mounted and glazed. Inscribed on mount 'David Cox'.
Provenance
Mr Bailey, Cavick House, near Wymondham, Norfolk; his daughter, Miss Jane Bailey, ibid.; bequeathed by her to the National Trust in 1994, and allocated to Peckover House
Marks and inscriptions
Recto: on mount David Cox Recto: Lower left Verso: conserved labels on the back: on an old label: John Caun[…?]ley; image of an arm with a grasping hand, and a banner inscribed: DEO DULCE; handwritten: David Cox / Moorland Sce[ne] with Cattle; Leveton label 27826 [?]; in red on a label: No.5 in black book; Museum Conservation Services label: March 2004; PEC/D/46 [CHECK: wrong?]
Makers and roles
David Cox, the Elder (Birmingham 1783 - Harborne 1859)