Phineas Borret's Farm near Saffron Walden

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Prints and Drawings

1802

Thomas Girtin
English, 1775-1802

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Thomas Girtin
Title: Phineas Borret's Farm near Saffron Walden
Place: England (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1802
Medium: Watercolor with touches of graphite, on off-white wove paper, laid down on light brown board
Dimensions: Sheet: 32.2 × 52.7 cm (12 11/16 × 20 3/4 in.); Mount: 45.1 × 65.5 cm (17 13/16 × 25 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: The Regenstein Collection
Reference Number: 1995.216
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“Maineri to Miró: The Regenstein Collection Since 1975,’ The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), pp. 62-63 (ill.).
Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “‘A Lasting Monument:’ The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), p. 12.
Greg Smith, Thomas Girtin and the Art of Watercolour (London, 2002).

The Art Institute of Chicago, “In Context: Recent Acquisitions to the Regenstein Collection,
Thomas Gainsborough and Eighteenth-century Portraits of the Common Man,” 20 February-28 April 1995.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Building a Collection: New Acquisitions and Promised Gifts of British Art,” May 1–August 1, 2004, checklist 10.

The artist to Sir John Ramsden [invoice]; by descent to Mrs. Gordon-Duff-Pennington, Muncaster Castle, 1995 [invoice]. Sold by Leger Galleries, London, to the Art Institute, 1995.

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