David Cox Snr. (1783-1859 Near Rowsley

David Cox Snr. (1783-1859

Near Rowsley, Derbyshire

Titled

Black chalk, with chalk sketch verso

20 x 26.5cm; 7¾ x 10½in.

Provenance:

William Ellis, 1845

Private collection, Canterbury

Michael Bryan, 1998

With Martyn Gregory, 2005

This drawing dates from Cox's trip to Derbyshire in May 1845 in the company of his friend and patron William Ellis. He frequently visited Haddon Hall from 1831 onwards and the area was a favourite sketching area. He normally stayed at the Peacock Inn at Rowsley. Cox's friend N.N. Solly recalls: These views at Rowsley were generally sketched before breakfast. Cox made sometimes two drawings before breakfast, and began a third, and then spent the day afterwards sketching at Haddon Hall; this was in the month of May, 1845, when he was still in his full vigour (N.Neal Solly, Memoir of the Life of David Cox, 1873, p.269).