[TRAVEL - DENMARK] FOX, CHARLES. Three late 18th century watercolors of the Danish Coastline. Comprising: View of Sandwic...

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[TRAVEL - DENMARK]
FOX, CHARLES. Three late 18th century watercolors of the Danish Coastline. Comprising: View of Sandwick Castle in the Isle of Bornholm. Drawn by C. Fox on board the Snow, Crown, 1787. Gouache, ink and pencil underdrawing on laid paper. 4 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches (11 x 17 cm); framed. Small spot along bottom edge just below the caption at the middle of the page; Rocky Islands in the Cattegate. Drawn on the spot by C. Fox. Ink and gouache on laid paper. 4 1/4 x 4 1/8 inches (11 x 10 cm); framed. Very faint and small stain along left edge; The Lower Beacon in the Isle of Hoogland. C. Fox fecit 1787. Ink and gouache on laid paper. 3 1/2 x 4 1/4 inches (9 x 11 cm); framed.

Charles Fox (1740?-1809) was an eccentric English polymath - he was, at various times, a bookseller, a poet, a collector of Persian manuscripts, a translator of Arabic poetry, as well as a portraitist and travelling landscape painter. With his brother, the master of a merchant ship, Fox sailed through the Baltic Sea to Russia in 1787, sketching landscapes along the way (DNB). These three charming and skillfully executed watercolors were painted on that trip while Fox was sailing along Denmark's craggy coastline.

C The Julius and Theodore Cohn Library
Estimate $800-1,200

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