- Description
-
- Creator
- Eliza Gwillim
- Title(s)
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- Moonlit Coastal View
- Date
- 1783
- Medium
- Pen and grey ink, grey wash
- Mount
- on an eighteenth-century washline mount
- Inscription
-
- sheet, recto, lower right
- “Eliza Gwillim Invt / 1783”
- Object Type
- Monochrome wash
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- Catalogue Number
- FT883
- Description Sources
- Owner (image)
Provenance
In the collection of Miss Elizabeth Crabbe (d. ca. 1970), whose family gave it after her death to a friend, in whose collection it remained in 2006. That owner believed that Miss Crabbe, who was descended from employees of General John Graves Simcoe (1752–1806), acquired the drawing at a sale of Simcoe property early in the twentieth century.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Private Collection, 1970
- Miss Elizabeth Crabbe ( - 1970)
- Bibliography
- Mary Lu MacDonald, 'Simcoe, Elizabeth Postuma (1762-1850)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2004
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Footnotes
- 1 See Houlding 2004 and Macdonald 2004.
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Comment
This is a drawing by Elizabeth Postuma Simcoe (1762–1850, née Gwillim). Although signed with her maiden name, this drawing was apparently made after the artist’s marriage in December 1782 to John Graves Simcoe (1752–1806), a senior colonial administrator as Governor of Upper Canada between 1791 and 1796.1 The buildings are typical of those seen in imaginary Italianate compositions by Towne and his pupils, but the artist’s use of the word “Invt” indicates that it was her own design. Whether or not this drawing depicts an actual place, it has the character of a Neapolitan coast.