Richard Parkes Bonington (1801-1828) [Aw29]
THE CASTLE, THUN, 1826
Pencil heightened with white, on buff paper. Partial faint pencil sketch of townscape on reverse. Numbered upper left: 70. Formerly titled in error below on mount: Chateau on the Lake of Zurich (H. 12 cm, W. 19 cm)
Literature: Patrick Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington, the Complete Paintings (Yale, 2008), p. 51, fig. 59; Patrick Noon, Richard Parkes Bonington, the Complete Drawings (Yale, 2011), p. 152, no. 336.
Provenance: Possibly William Esdaile (1758-1837); Christie’s, 18-25 June 1840, Part III, lot 1414; Major-General Sir John D’Arcy Anderson and Lady Elizabeth Anderson, by whom given to Winchester College, 1993
