Mountainous Landscape with Overshot Mill and Bridge

c. 1795

Medium	watercolor and graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions	Sheet: 10 3/8 × 14 7/8 in. (26.4 × 37.8 cm) Frame: 18 5/8 × 22 5/8 in. (47.3 × 57.5 cm)
Object Number	2007.8.121
Acquisition	Gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Thomas Girtin, Mountainous Landscape with Overshot Mill and Bridge, c. 1795, watercolor and graphite on cream wove paper. Clark Art Institute, gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.8.121

Select Bibliography

Whittingham, S. "Sales." Turner Studies. 2.1. Summer. 1982. Upstone, R. "News and Sales Record." Turner Studies: His Art and Epoch 1775–1851 11, no. 1 (Summer 1991). Wilton, Andrew. Turner, Girtin and Bonington: A New York Private Collection, Paintings, Watercolours, and Drawings. New York: Privately Published, 2001. Wilton, Andrew. "The 'Monro School' Questions: Some Answers." Turner Studies. 4.2. Winter. 1984:8-23. Clarke, Jay, ed. Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia: The Manton Collection of British Art. Williamstown, MA: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2012.

Provenance

Possibly Dr. Thomas Monro, sale, Christie’s, London, 26-28 June and 1-2 July 1833; John Dobbs Berger, sale, Sotheby’s, London, 16 July 1981, no. 45; sale, Sotheby’s, New York, 23 Oct. 1990, no. 6; sale, Christie’s, London, 7 Apr. 1998, no. 26, to Ackermann; [Ackermann & Johnson, London, Apr.–Nov. 1998, sold to Manton, Nov. 1998]; Sir Edwin A. G. Manton, New York (1998–d. 2005); Manton Family Art Foundation (2005–2007, given to the Clark); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2007.