Law Cliveden on the Thames {1883} NGV [WT]

Law, David (1831-1901; Scottish)
Cliveden on the Thames
Watercolour, 76.7 x 121.0 cm (sheet)
Purchased, 1883
National Gallery of Victoria (p.169.49.1)

This work, bought in Melbourne together with Law Windsor Castle {1883} NGV [WT], has become badly discoloured (compare the black and white reproductions in NGV 1894 and 1905).

The AGNSW, which owns other watercolours by Law, purchased in the 1880s, also owns an etching of this subject by him.

Refs.

AR 1883, p.33; NGV 1894, p.47 (II.Stawell Gallery, no.22; ill.); NGV 1905, p.44 (II.Stawell Gallery, no.24: ill.; as bought in Melbourne) [£126] 

See also http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/?q=David+Law, especially http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/6229/ (for Law’s etching of Cliveden)