Lot 204: John Robert Cozens 1752-1799 , Between Lauterbrunn and Grindelwald

inscribed with title on a fragment of the original label attached to the backboard watercolour over pencil with pen and grey ink and grey wash, on laid paper

23.7 by 35.8 cm.; 9 1/4 by 14 1/4 in.

London, Burlington Fine Arts Club , 1916, no. 77

C.F. Bell & T. Girtin, 'The Drawings and Sketches of John Robert Cozens,' The Walpole Society, vol. XXIII, 1935, no. 19, I.

Richard Payne Knight;
The Hon. Rowland Allanson-Winn;
Herbert Horne;
Edward Marsh;
Anonymous sale, in these Rooms, 19 November 1992, lot 42

This view looks along the river Schwarze Lutschine towards the Mettenberg, Switzerland. There is a second, larger version of this composition, signed and dated 1778, formerly in the collection of William Esdale (Bell & Girtin, lit. op. cit., no. 19, II). Two other, slightly different versions of the subject are known, one in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum (Dyce Bequest, 1869, D. 711) and the other in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (A.E. Anderson Gift, 1922; see Bell & Girtin, Lit. op. cit., no. 18 I & II).

Two other views from this journey were sold in these Rooms on 13th July 1989, 'Near Sallanches in Savoy' (lot 114, £14,000) and 'Mont Blanc from the Arve near Sallanches' (lot 116, £39,000).