FDA-D.1695-2023
Parts
Object number
FDA-D.1695-2023
Object type
Identification
Title
Waiting for the Ferry
Title Type
Common name
Description
Painted landscape view showing with figures on a riverbank, two on horseback
Comments
This work was included in the David Cox retrospective exhibition held at the City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in 1890. It was loaned to the exhibition by the then owner, the prominent Scottish collector, patron and landscape painter James Orrock (1829–1919). The catalogue describes the ‘yellow light in sky’ over the ‘two horsemen and three pedestrians waiting for the ferry boat.’
A similar work of the same dimensions is in the Tate collection. The Tate version is almost the mirror image of this, showing the travellers on the opposite bank of the river, apparently returning from their travels.
A similar work of the same dimensions is in the Tate collection. The Tate version is almost the mirror image of this, showing the travellers on the opposite bank of the river, apparently returning from their travels.
Description
Dimensions
height (actual size): 200mm
width (actual size): 292mm
width (actual size): 292mm
Material
paper
watercolour
pencil
bodycolour
watercolour
pencil
bodycolour
Materials & techniques note
Watercolour over pencil with touches of bodycolour, on paper
Production
Person
Cox, David (Snr), 1783 - 1859 (Artist)
Date
c.1835
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of James Orrock (1829–1913) by 1881; Agnew's, Manchester; W/S Fine Art, London 2010; collection of Richard Henry Allen Amis (K.S. 1945-50; 1932-2018); by whom bequeathed to Eton College
Exhibited: Midland Counties Art Museum, Nottingham Castle, 1878 (as ‘The Ferry’, lender James Orrock); 'Works by David Cox', City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 1890, catalogue number 336, as ‘The Ferry’; 'An Etonian Collector: The Richard Amis Bequest', The Verey Gallery, Eton College, 16 November 2023 to 24 March 2024
Exhibited: Midland Counties Art Museum, Nottingham Castle, 1878 (as ‘The Ferry’, lender James Orrock); 'Works by David Cox', City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 1890, catalogue number 336, as ‘The Ferry’; 'An Etonian Collector: The Richard Amis Bequest', The Verey Gallery, Eton College, 16 November 2023 to 24 March 2024
