French Town, Buildings and River

Prints and Drawings

1821/8

Richard Parkes Bonington
English, 1802-1828

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Richard Parkes Bonington
Title: French Town, Buildings and River
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.: Artist's working dates 1821–1828
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Inscriptions: Signed on rock near lower edge: "R.P.B."
Dimensions: 18.1 × 14.3 cm (7 1/8 × 5 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1939.430
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The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin XXXIV (1940), pp. 75-76.

Minneapolis, Minn., Walker Art Center, “American Watercolor and Winslow Homer,” February 27-March 25, 1945; traveled to the Detroit Institute of Arts, April 3-May 1, 1945, and the Brooklyn Museum, May 15-June 12, 1945.

Sold by Mrs. Cornelius Sullivan, New York, to the Art Institute, 1939.

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