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Object number

FDA-D.537-2010

Object type

Identification

Title

Donnybrook Fair
Pilkington

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer
collection

Other number

pi 205

Description

Dimensions

height (actual size): 405mm
width (actual size): 604.7mm

Inscription

Signed and dated 'F. Wheatley 1794' (lower centre)

Materials & techniques note

Pencil, pen & grey ink, and watercolour

Production

Date

1794

History and association

Object history note

Provenance: Collection of Alan Pilkington; by whom presented/bequeathed to Eton College

Exhibited: 'Watercolours from the Eton College Collections', Verey Gallery, Eton College, 24 November 2018 to 24 February 2019

Previous ownership

Pilkington, Alan, 1879 - 1973: Bequeathed by Alan Pilkington to Eton 1973
Hutchinson, W.
Brockett, Lord (Lord)

References

• Christie's, A Genius for Watercolour; Watercolours from the Eton College Collection, exhibition catalogue, 2003 (No. 30, p. 37)
• Webster, M., Francis Wheatley, London, 1970 (p. 49, fig. 55)
• Pilkington, A., Loan exhibition of early English watercolours, drawings by Old Masters, etchings & engravings from the collection of Alan D. Pilkington: in aid of the Distressed Gentlefolk's Aid Association, Colnaghi & Co, London, 1958 (no. 32)
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