David DAVIES
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia 1864 – Looe, England 1939
- Movements: France, England 1890-93, from 1897
Old house, Dieppe
c.1924 Dieppe, Haute-Normandie, Département de la Seine-Maritime, France
Drawing, Watercolour, Technique: watercolour
Primary Insc: Signed lower right within image in watercolour, 'D. DAVIES'.
Not dated.
Not titled
image 30.6 h x 22.0 w cm
sheet 30.6 h x 22.0 w cm
Gift of Anna Gray, 2009
Accession No: NGA 2009.74
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David DAVIES
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia 1864 – Looe, England 1939
- Movements: France, England 1890-93, from 1897
Old house, Dieppe
c.1924 Title Notes: According to a lable attached to the back of the work, the watercolour was exhibited in May 1926.
Dieppe, Haute-Normandie, Département de la Seine-Maritime, France
Drawing, Watercolour, Technique: watercolour
Support: off-white wove paper
Primary Insc: Signed lower right within image in watercolour, 'D. DAVIES'.
Not dated.
Not titled
Tertiary Insc: Lable verso, '#26. OLD HOUSE, DIEPPE/ 29 x 21.5 cm / Signed: L/R./ Exh: Fine Art Society Gallery/ David Davies, May 1926. No. 24/ Insc: 'Old House, Dieppe No. 10'/ verso./ This painting, although as above with/ the number on the reverse (No. 10)/ not relating to the exhibition number/ (No.24), would appear to have been/ exhibited in 1926 nonetheless.'
Lable verso, 'Anthong A. Cowden / David davies (1862-1939) / Exhibited / The Expatriate Period / Malvern Fine Art Gallery Nov. 1978 no. 26 / Plymoth City Art Gallery Nov. 1932. no. 10 / Fine Art Society Gallery, Melbourne / May 1926 no. 24 (Note - see catalogue 1978)'.
image 30.6 h x 22.0 w cm
sheet 30.6 h x 22.0 w cm
Gift of Anna Gray, 2009
Accession No: NGA 2009.74
Provenance:
- Collection the artist's grandchildren, by descent.
- Collection of Anna Gray, purchased from Anthony Cowden, London, 1978.
- Gift to the National Gallery of Australia, from Anna Gray, Canberra, 2009.
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