Sketch for a Panorama:The town of Largs, Ayrshire and the Surrounding Scenery
Samuel Parlber
- Art Funded
- 2011
- Dimensions
- 14 x 95.7 cm
- Vendor
- Bourne Fine Art
It takes in the town and shore with the gardens of Halkshill House and the valley of the Gogo water. Of particular importance is the ColmÂ’s Day (St ColumbaÂ’s Day) cattle and horse market in the left foreground which was the principal traditional market is Largs and still continues in a modern form. All that is known of the artist, Samuel Parlber, is that he produced a number of pictures of Largs in mid-1856, although there is no record of him painting anywhere else.
Provenance
ChristieÂ’s, 2000; The Fine Art Society; ChristieÂ’s, 2001; Bourne Fine Art. The work has been vetted by the Art Loss Register.