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Trafalgar Square

John Francis Salmon

Art Funded
1994
Dimensions
19 x 25 cm
Bequeathed by
Cornish Torbock through The Art Fund
Part of an extensive collection of 111 drawings and watercolours by largely British artists, which was allocated to 5 museums throughout the country.

Provenance

Cornish Torbock

Watercolour

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A Panoramic View of London, from the Tower of St. Margaret's Church, Westminster
 Acquired 2018
Medicine Chest
 Acquired 1930
Writing Desk
 Acquired 1939
Waterloo Bridge and the Lambeth Waterfront from Westminster Stairs
 Acquired 1928
Watercolour
 Acquired 1968
Violin & case
 Acquired 1929
View of Piazza, Covent Garden
 Acquired 1953
View of Fulham from Putney Bridge
 Acquired 2014
Two Collections of Drawings
 Acquired 1937
Trafalgar Square
 Acquired 1994
Topographical views of London
 Acquired 1933
Titus Oates in the Pillory outside Westminster Hall
 Acquired 1934
The Thames at Deptford
 Acquired 1959
The Sudeley Castle Tankard
 Acquired 1967
The Strand Bridge Under Construction
 Acquired 1994
The River from Southwark Bridge
 Acquired 1959
The Rhinebeck Panorama of London
 Acquired 1998
The London Cup
 Acquired 1947
The Houses of Parliament from Millbank
 Acquired 2002
The Heath
 Acquired 2012
The Great Fire of London
 Acquired 1957
The General Post Office, One Minute to Six
 Acquired 1991
The Frozen Thames, looking Eastwards towards Old London Bridge
 Acquired 1935
The Embankment
 Acquired 1986
The Du Cane Flagon
 Acquired 1995
The Crossing Sweeper
 Acquired 2003
The Burning of Old St Paul's, 1666
 Acquired 1951
The Annunciation
 Acquired 2006
Sword & two freedom boxes
 Acquired 1970
Suit of Armour
 Acquired 1934
Stone Bracket
 Acquired 1936
Spoon
 Acquired 1947
Six toys from the Pilson Toy Collection
 Acquired 1997
Silver Card Counters
 Acquired 1932
Shaftesbury, or Lost and Found
 Acquired 1993
Roots to Reckoning Archive
 Acquired 2009
Reliquary cross
 Acquired 1994
Quilted satin dress
 Acquired 1990
Quilled picture: Statuette of Queen Anne
 Acquired 1962
Prospect of London and the Thames from above Greenwich
 Acquired 1964
Portrait of Renton Nicholson with Allegorical Scenes and Figures
 Acquired 1934
Pillow-case
 Acquired 1958
Pall Mall & The Shot Tower & The Prison Gates (Pentonville)
 Acquired 1965
Old English Broadsides
 Acquired 1914
Model of Queen Alexandra Memorial
 Acquired 1936
Memorial brooch and Ring
 Acquired 1938
Lost; Hackney Flowers
 Acquired 2016
London, Winter, with St. Paul's and Sea Gulls
 Acquired 1928
London's River
 Acquired 1959
London Landscape
 Acquired 2001
London Bridge
 Acquired 2001
Jug & Kettle
 Acquired 1928
Interior of King Henry VII Chapel
 Acquired 1919
Home Again
 Acquired 2004
Greenwich Hospital
 Acquired 1963
Gold bracelet
 Acquired 1929
Glass wine bottle
 Acquired 1957
Garbage Strike
 Acquired 2011
Gaming Table & Gaming Set
 Acquired 1931
Gallery Box at the New Bedford Music Hall
 Acquired 1978
Four photographs of London
 Acquired 1995
Finger Ring
 Acquired 1995
Figure of Thomas Todd
 Acquired 2011
Fauconberg porringer
 Acquired 2005
Elizabethan Costrel
 Acquired 1929
Dresses and Accessories
 Acquired 1936
Cup & Salver
 Acquired 1983
Covent Garden Piazza and Market
 Acquired 1955
Court Dress Ensemble
 Acquired 1930
Copper and Silk Portfolio
 Acquired 2009
Construction of the Metropolitan Railway's District Line
 Acquired 2001
Collection of Topographical Views of London
 Acquired 1959
Collection of nine drawings
 Acquired 2016
Collection of 15 watercolour drawings of London
 Acquired 1928
Cleopatra's Needle and the Embankment
 Acquired 1959
Civil War Banner
 Acquired 1989
Chiswick from the River
 Acquired 1962
Charles II's cavalcade through the City of London
 Acquired 1978
Chain, Brooch & Locket and Chain
 Acquired 1935
Central Criminal Court, Old Bailey - The Interior
 Acquired 1994
Carved Wood Panel
 Acquired 1939
Camberwell Nocturne
 Acquired 1992
Battersea Power Station XVIII
 Acquired 2015
Arrest at Nevada Bob's
 Acquired 1999
Anger
 Acquired 1996
An Infant Orphan Election at the London Tavern, 'Polling'
 Acquired 1995
A Summer Day in Hyde Park
 Acquired 1954
A Pillar of the Exchange
 Acquired 1934
A City Shower
 Acquired 1989
17th century English Swords
 Acquired 1936
1) Aplomb (St.Paul's'); 2) Walkie-Talkie Melted my Golden Calf; 3) London/Winterreise
 Acquired 2015
'Lantern' Clock
 Acquired 1932

John Ritchie's A Summer Day in Hyde Park evokes the Victorians at their leisure on the banks of the Serpentine, providing a wealth of costume detail and several charming vignettes along the way.

The little clay figure of Thomas Todd by the Chinese model maker Chitqua is an intimate portrait of a successful merchant – one of the many who helped create London into a thriving mercantile centre in the 18th century.

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