drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 1877,0811.77
- Description
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Whitehall; facing north, one of 89 sketches of views of London kept in an album.
Graphite
- Production date
- 1755-1813
- Dimensions
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Height: 240 millimetres
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Width: 377 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- From album 1877,0811.21-110, due to an error in the original registration there is no drawing for reg. no 1877,0811.102. For general information regarding this album and William Marlow, please see curatorial comment for 1877,0811.21.
This drawing is possibly a preparatory drawing made for Marlow's painted view of Whitehall, Looking Northeast, now in the Yale Center for British Art collection. The painting is dated circa 1775 and so it is likely that this sketches and other similar that are also in the album date from the early 1770's.
William Marlow was very much influenced by the work of his master Samuel Scott but like so many other artists in the mid eighteenth century, he was particularly influenced by Canaletto. This is evident throughout many of Marlow's paintings of scenes of London, in particular those of the Thames, and his views of France and Italy. Prints were a significant means of speading Canaletto's influence in Enlgand. Robert Sayer and Henry Overton issued a print of Canaletto's drawing of a view of the Monument. According to Liversidge and, the composition provided a model for numerous later "perspectives" of city streets in London as well as the provinces (p.106). This view by Canaletto inspired a sucession of similar scenes by aritsts such as Samuel Scott and William Marlow. The evidence of this can be seen in this sketch of Whitehall and various others such as 1877,0811.55, 27 and 56.
See M.Liversidge and J.Farrington 'Canaletto in England' (London:1993), pp.104-107.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1877
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1877,0811.77