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Hay barges

Hay barges
 1834

Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
89.5 × 148.7 cm
Inscription
inscribed in brown paint c.: J. S. Cotman 1834
Accession Number
962-3
Department
International Painting
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1919
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Marines and Seascapes
Subjects (specific)
barges (flat-bottomed watercraft) boats cargo vessels hay (material) masts sails (equipment) seas transportation
Provenance
Collection of Harry Stephen Meysey Thompson (1809–74), 1st Baronet of Knaresborough; by descent to Sir Henry Meysey-Thompson (1845–1929), 2nd Baronet of Knaresborough, created 1st Baron Knaresborough 1874, 1874–1901; included in the Sir Henry Meysey Thompson sale, Christie's, London, 16 March 1901 (Lugt 58910), no. 17, as The mouth of a river, with hay-barges, by J. S. Cotman;[1] from where purchased by Hoseda, probably on behalf of John Postle Heseltine (1843–1929); Heseltine collection, London, until 1918; included in the Christie's sale, London, 7 June 1918; purchased by Mrs Arthur Clifton, wife of the proprietor of the Carfax Gallery (dealer), London, 1918; sold to Miss M. Knox, London, 1918; from whom purchased, on the advice of Robert Ross, for the Felton Bequest, 1919.

[1] See Catalogue of pictures by old masters removed from No. 2 Hamilton Place, Picadilly, the property of Sir Henry Meysey Thompson, Christie’s, London, 16 March 1901 (Lugt 58910), accessible https://archive.org/details/picadpictu00chri