Literature

Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 587

Exhibitions

2021 In the Light of Cuyp. Aelbert Cuyp & Gainsborough - Constable - Turner, Nr. 55

Provenance

Purchased 1833 at the time of the Royal Academy of Arts (London) exhibition by Hugh Andrew Johnstone Munro (1795-1865), Novar, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland
sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 6 April 1878, nr. 101
bought by Thos. Agnew & Sons, London, for Kirkman Daniel Hodgson, Ashgrove, Kent
by descent to Robert Kirkman Hodgson, Gavelacre, Hampshire
sold 1893 to Thos. Agnew & Sons, London
purchased the same year by Sir Charles Clow Tennant, 1st bt. (1823-1906), The Glen, near Innerleithen, Peeblesshire, Scotland
by descent to his grandson, Christopher Grey Tennant, 2nd baron Glenconner (1899-1983), The Glen
sold July 1923 to Charles Carstairs for M. Knoedler & Co., London, from whose New York branch it was purchased November 1923 by Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.
gift by 1937 to his daughter, Ailsa Mellon Bruce (1901-1969), New York
bequest 1970 to NGA

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1970.17.135

Other works by Joseph Mallord William Turner

Approach to Venice
c. 1843

Overlooking the coast with classical building
c. 1827

The Harbour of Dieppe
1826 (?)

Keelmen Heaving in Coals
1835

Antwerp: Van Goyen Looking Out for a Subject
1833