Catalogue entry
T05011 Blackfriars Bridge: Moonlight Sketch ?1862 or 1863
Watercolour on wove paper 161 × 224 (6 1/4 × 8 13/16)
Inscribed ‘Blackfriars Bridge. | moonlight sketch from 14 Chatham Place | 6 3/4 × 8 3/4 George P. Boyce’ in pencil on back of lining paper
Presented by Mrs John Gere 1987
Prov:...; Abbott & Holder, from whom bt by Mrs John Gere 1974
Exh: ? OWCS Winter 1867–8 (377, as ‘Night Sketch of Old Blackfriars Bridge, 1864’); English Watercolours, Abbott & Holder, Alpine Club, March 1974 (86)
Lit: Virginia Surtees (ed.). The Diaries of George Price Boyce, 1980, pp.38, 99
In 1862 Boyce took over his friend Rossetti's studio and living quarters at 14 Chatham Place, overlooking the Thames near Blackfriars Bridge… (read more)
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