Lot 61
Bristol.- Müller (William James, 1812-1845) Pandy Mill, North Wales, 1833.
Estimate: £500 - 700
Description
Bristol.- Müller (William James, also spelt Muller, English landscape and figure painter, the best-known artist of the Bristol School, 1812-1845) Pandy Mill [Llangollen, North Wales], graphite on wove paper, signed with monogram, inscribed and dated '1833' in pencil lower right, 500 x 425 mm. (19 3/4 x 16 3/4 in), under glass, central horizontal fold, crease lower left, minor surface dirt, 1833.
Provenance:
Sale. Sotheby's London, The Bill Thomson Collection, Thursday, November 25th, 1999, lot 22.
⁂ See previous lot for autograph manuscript notes by Müller documenting his 1833 tour of Wales, with one leaf featuring notes on Pandy's Mill: "The wheel is going/1. Stem covr'd with Lichen & Scolopendrian officini/ 2nd wheel a Locality/ Sycamore tree the little stems/ Branches of trees It [?] Pink with White Lichen in them - /branches very luxuriant indeed/ Long weeds (bull rushes.) & little stunted oak [?] - Brown moss".
Description
Bristol.- Müller (William James, also spelt Muller, English landscape and figure painter, the best-known artist of the Bristol School, 1812-1845) Pandy Mill [Llangollen, North Wales], graphite on wove paper, signed with monogram, inscribed and dated '1833' in pencil lower right, 500 x 425 mm. (19 3/4 x 16 3/4 in), under glass, central horizontal fold, crease lower left, minor surface dirt, 1833.
Provenance:
Sale. Sotheby's London, The Bill Thomson Collection, Thursday, November 25th, 1999, lot 22.
⁂ See previous lot for autograph manuscript notes by Müller documenting his 1833 tour of Wales, with one leaf featuring notes on Pandy's Mill: "The wheel is going/1. Stem covr'd with Lichen & Scolopendrian officini/ 2nd wheel a Locality/ Sycamore tree the little stems/ Branches of trees It [?] Pink with White Lichen in them - /branches very luxuriant indeed/ Long weeds (bull rushes.) & little stunted oak [?] - Brown moss".