Lot 117: f - THOMAS ROBINS JNR. 1745-1806

VARIOUS PROPERTIES

CRANESBILL, EVERGREEN BIRTHWORT, VIRGINIAN CHELONE AND LADY OF THE WOODS BUTTERFLY

CRANESBILL, EVERGREEN BIRTHWORT, VIRGINIAN CHELONE AND LADY OF THE WOODS BUTTERFLY

measurements note
35.5 by 24 cm., 14 by 9 1/2 in.

inscribed l.r.: Painted from Nature. By Tho Robins the Younger Bath 1786; another sheet on the reverse variously inscribed with the names of the flowers and insects

pen and ink and watercolour with bodycolour and gum arabic

PROVENANCE

The Bath and West and Southern Counties Society, their sale in these Rooms 12th July 1967, lot 239 (£500);
Stephen Spector

EXHIBITED

The New York Cultural Center, No. 46, on loan from Stephen Spector;
The Art Museum, Princeton University, No. 37

NOTE

Thomas Robins was born in Bath in 1743, the son of the topographical landscape painter of the same name. His work is rare and until the discovery and sale of the albums from the Bath and West and Southern Counties Society at Sotheby's in 1967 and 1968 (of which the present watercolour and the following lot were a part) his work had been known only by an album of flower sketches and five finished drawings in the collection of Lord Fairhaven, now part of the Broughton Collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge