The Spooner collection of British watercolours at the Courtauld Institute Gallery
By: catalogue by Michael Broughton, William Clarke, Joanna Selborne ; with essays by Michael Broughton ... [et al.]
Contributors: Broughton, Michael; Clarke, William; Murdoch, John, 1945-; Selborne, Joanna; Murdoch, John, 1945-; Courtauld Institute Galleries; Courtauld Institute of Art; Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery; Wordsworth Trust
Publisher: Courtauld Institute of Art; Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens
Published: 2005
Place of publication: [London]; [San Marino, Calif.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781870787963
Subjects: Spooner, William Wycliffe, -- 1882-1967 -- Art collections -- Catalogs; Courtauld Institute Galleries -- Catalogs; Watercolor painting, British -- 18th century -- Catalogs; Watercolor painting, British -- 19th century -- Catalogs; Watercolor painting -- England -- London -- Catalogs
Genres: Catalogs
Description: "This catalogue accompanies the first major exhibition of the distinguished collection of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British watercolours assembled by William and Mercie Spooner. Bequeathed to the Courtauld Institute in 1967, the collection includes outstanding works by John Constable, John Sell Cotman, Alexander and John Robert Cozens, Thomas Gainsborough, Thomas Girtin, Samuel Palmer, Thomas Rowlandson, Paul Sandby, Francis Towne, J.M.W. Turner and Peter De Wint, as well as numerous watercolours by lesser-known artists. Essays on William Spooner, the connoisseurship of watercolours and their production and literary associations serve to introduce this fully-illustrated catalogue."--Jacket.
Notes: Published in conjunction with exhibitions shown in 2005-6 at the Courtauld Institute Gallery, London, the Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, and the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-263) and index
Table of contents: title: William Wycliffe Spooner / Michael Broughton; title: Turning 'his back to the scene' / Greg Smith; title: Connoisseurship of watercolour / John Murdoch; title: Poets, painters and watercolourists / Robert Woof