Robert Hills
Nook End, Ambleside
1801
Physical Qualities
Watercolor over graphite on paper, Sheet: 357 x 270 mm. (14 1/16 x 10 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number
2006.93
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2006; Lowell Libson Ltd., London; purchased at estate sale, Sotheby's London, 8 December 2005, lot 187; Sir Michael Ingram, London
Ann Shafer, BMA, "Taking in the View: English Watercolors and Prints," 27 August - 7 December 2008.
Possibly exhibited at the Society of Painters in Water-Colours, 1807, listed as Nookend Bridge, near Ambleside (noted in Walker's Quarterly, no 12, July 1923, p. 33).
Possibly exhibited at the Society of Painters in Water-Colours, 1807, listed as Nookend Bridge, near Ambleside (noted in Walker's Quarterly, no 12, July 1923, p. 33).
Basil S. Long, "Robert Hills Water-Colour Painter and Etcher," Walker's Quarterly, No. 12 (July 1923), 33.
Ann Shafer, "Picturesque England," "Newsletter of the Print, Drawing & Photograph Society of the BMA," Spring 2007, Vol. XXV, No. 1, p. 16, ill. p. 17.
Inscribed: lower left in graphite: "At Nook end, or Pooley's (?) Bridge, Nr Ambleside"
Markings: CM: Sir Michael Ingram (Lugt undesc)
