FDA-D.434-2010
Parts
Object number
FDA-D.434-2010
Object type
Identification
Title
Mickleham Downs
Pilkington
Pilkington
Title Type
assigned by artist
collection
collection
Description
Painted view of trees in a landscape
Other number
Pi 161
Description
Dimensions
height (actual size): 236mm
width (actual size): 378mm
width (actual size): 378mm
Inscription
Inscribed in pencil, lower left: 'Mickleham downs. / 1848.'; and lower centre: 'Sketched in company with my dear Friend Saml. Palmer.'; signed and dated lower right: 'G. Richmond'1881'
Materials & techniques note
Pencil, pen and brown ink, watercolour heightened with white
Production
Person
Richmond, George, 1809 - 1896 (Artist)
Date
1848
History and association
Object history note
Provenance: Collection of Alan Pilkington; by whom presented/bequeathed to Eton College
Previous ownership
Pilkington, Alan, 1879 - 1973: Bequeathed to Eton by Alan Pilkington, 1973; at Eton by 1961. Previously in the collection of Mrs J.G. Richmond
