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Description: A CHURCH IN DIVES, NORMANDY, FRANCE

measurements note
16.5 by 10 cm., 6 1/2 by 4 in.

inscribed u.r.: Dives and u.l.: The Tower of the churc/is right in hight but not/broad enough

pencil on laid paper

PROVENANCE

Victor Rienaeker;
Purchased from P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1962

EXHIBITED

London, Heinz Gallery, 1970;
London, Albany Gallery, London to Paris 1820 - 1845, 16th November - 1st December 1972, no.2;
Ludlow Festival, 1983

NOTE

Dives is a port on the Normandy coast situated half way between Caen and Trouville. It was from here that William the Conqueror launched his invasion of England in 1066. Bonington visited Dives in the Autumn of 1821 on his first trip to Normandy. There is a fine finished watercolour of the Eglise Notre Dame, Dives in the Walker Art Gallery, together with a graphite study which is dated 1821. The drawings which he made during this tour, often depict architectural studies of buildings and are the earliest examples of his graphite technique