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Cattle studies the first signed lower right "JWD RA" and inscribed in pencil "gisburne park, aug.t 23d 1811" and with other indistinct annotations the second signed lower left "JWD RA" pencil on buff paper, 12 x 18 cm; 15 x 16 cm (2)

Footnote: Provenance: [By repute: Sotheby's, 18th December 1963, lot 201; Colnaghi, London] From the collection of the art critic David Thompson (1929-2019) and Freda Dowie (1928-2019) Literature: Edward J Nygren, 'James Ward's Gordale Scar - An Essay in the Sublime', Tate Gallery, November 1982–January 1983, nos. 17, 19 The present studies are related to preliminary works in pencil and watercolour (see literature) for the finished painting 'Gordale Scar', of circa 1812-14, now in the Tate Collection. The preliminary studies, which were last known to be in the Paul Mellon collection, Upperville, Virginia at the time of the 1983 exhibition, are both inscribed and dated 'Gisburn Park Aug.t 23d. 1811', and the first of these is of the same animal as that in the upper example here.

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