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Item details: Person - artist beginning Girtin AND Object class beginning fine art


Thomas Girtin (1775-1802)
Borrowdale, c.1801
pencil and wash on paper
drawing (pencil and watercolour)
310 x 471 mm

Inscriptions:
ink (written label) (backing board top right): 4/488060 / 2 18
ink (written label) (backing board top right): c18 Nov 1985
pencil (written) (bottom centre left): 83
pencil (written) (top centre): old
chalk (written) (backing board): numbers and letters

Provenance:
Purchase 1986, with the support of the V&A Purchase Grant Fund, the Art Fund and the National Heritage Memorial Fund


Exhibited:
Discovery of the Lake District, Hankyu Department Centre, 1991
Images of the Lake District, 1750 to the present day, The Wordsworth Museum, 1998-9
Savage Grandeur and Noblest Thoughts, The Wordsworth Museum, 2010-1, Cat. number: 47
On the Spot, Victoria Gallery and Museum, 2013-4
Reference GRMDC.B387