Lot 324: JOHN ROBERT COZENS

PROPERTY OF A LADY
LONDON 1752-1797
VIEW OF THE GRAND CHARTREUSE
Watercolour over pencil, on laid paper, original wash-line mount;
inscribed verso: General View of the Grande Chartreus [sic]
260 by 363 mm

C.F. Bell & T. Girtin, 'The Drawings and Sketches of John Robert Cozens', Walpole Society, Vol. XXIII, 1934-5, p. 78, no. 424;
Burlington Magazine, April 1945, p. 97, fig. B

William Beckford (1760-1844);
his sale, London, Christie's, 10 April 1805, lot 31 to Champernowne [sic];
Charles Sackville Bale (1791-1880);
his executor's sale, London, Christie's, 13 May 1881, lot 29, to Sir Thomas Barlow, Bt. (1881-1968);
with Agnew's, London, by 1945, by whom sold to the father of the present owner