Provenance

• 1919: possibly sold with Old Battersea Bridge [M.0700] at Sotheby's, London, 27 May 1919 (lot 169) as 'pencil' (sic) studies for Lithographic reproduction, together with impressions of the lithographs, and bought by Colnaghi, London dealers.
• 1973: sold from the collection of Christopher Norris Esq., at auction, Sotheby's, London, 21 November 1973 (lot 8) and bought by William Darby, London dealer.
• After 1976: sold by Somerville & Simpson, London art dealers, to a private collector.
• Before 2007: owned by Catherine Gamble Curran (1926-2007), New York;
• 2008: sold at auction from the Estate of Catherine Gamble Curran, Sotheby's, London, 22 May 2008 (lot 82).

The early and recent history of both Old Battersea Bridge [M.0700] and The Tall Bridge [M.0701] is difficult to disentangle.

Further details are in MacDonald 1995 (cat. rais.) [more] (cat. no. 701).