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Myles Birket Foster R.W.S. 1825-1899.
Cliveden from Maidenhead Bridge, Berkshire.
Signed with initials lower right and inscribed with title under mount: Cliefden from Maidenhead Bridge.
Watercolour heightened with bodycolour.
Whole sheet 17.8 x 22 cm., 7 x 8 inches.
Provenance:
J. Noble, 1882.
Exhibited:
London, J. & W. Vokins, 14 and16 Great Portland St., Birket Foster Loan Exhibition, 1882, no.25 (part).
This is a view looking north from Maidenhead Bridge with the island of Bridge Eyot in the foreground and Cliveden House on the hill in the distance. Cliveden is an Italianate mansion 200 feet above the Thames on a hillside.
The present house, the third on the site, was built in 1851 by Charles Barry for the 2nd Duke of Sutherland and it is now a five star hotel.
Dimensions
17.8 x 22 cmThe BADA Standard
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