- Description
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- Title(s)
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- The Head of Lake Geneva, looking towards Montreux and the Castle of Chillon
- Date
- No date
- Medium
- Unknown
- Inscription
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- artist's mount, verso
- “The Head of Lake Geneva, looking towards Montreux and the Castle of Chillon”
- Object Type
- Unknown
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- Versions
- A View of the Wrekin, Shropshire
- Catalogue Number
- FT833c
- Description Sources
- Agnew's records
Provenance
Descended to the artist's great-grand-daughter Rosetta Frances Dobson (1892-1965), who sold it to Agnew's, within a group of 25 works by White Abbott, on 3 December 1937. This drawing was entered in Agnew's Sold by the artist’s great-granddaughter Rosetta Frances Dobson (1892–1965) to Agnew’s (no.2612a) on 3 December 1937 among a group of twenty-five John White Abbott drawings (including FT818, FT828, FT833b). Agnew’s sold it to G. W. Barker on 26 February 1943.
- Associated People & Organisations
- Untraced
- G. W. Barker, 26 February 1943
- Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 3 December 1937, no.2612a
- Rosetta Frances Dobson (1892 - 1965), December 1937
- Exhibition History
- [?] 65th Annual Exhibition of Water Colour and Pencil Drawings, Thomas Agnew & Sons, 1938
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Comment
In Agnew’s Drawing Book this was numbered 2612a, listed immediately below FT833b (which was numbered 2612), and called “ditto ditto” (i.e. “From Head of Lake Geneva, looking towards Montreux & Castle of Chillon”). One of these two copies was presumably exhibit 91 in Agnew’s 1938 show, given the title The Head of Lake Geneva, looking towards Montreux and the Castle of Chillon by John White Abbott. On the face of it they appear to be versions of FT379, or perhaps FT377.