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SM P349. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Art UK
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Samuel Scott (1701/2 - 1772)

On The Thames

Oil on canvas

Height: 49.6cm, sight size
Width: 90.4cm, sight size

Museum number: P349

On display: Model Room (pre-booked tours only)
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house. For tours https://www.soane.org/your-visit

Curatorial note

View on the River Thames near the Tower of London.

Provenance help-art-provenance

Acquired by Sir John Soane before c.1829-30 when the 1830 Description was drafted.

Literature

Soane, Description, 1830, p.24 and 1835, p.89
Kingzett, Richard, A Catalogue of the Works of Samuel Scott, Walpole Society, 48 (1980-82)
Thompson, G. (ed), Samuel Scott Bicentenary: Paintings, drawings and engravings, exhibition catalogue, Guildhall Art Gallery, 1972, pp.22-23


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