Probably commissioned by Lionel Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset (1688-1755);
Possibly with Wright’s, Edinburgh, ‘Richard Wilson - The celebrated Engraved Picture of the View of Dover’, 9th December 1829, sold for £40;
Lt.-Colonel R. Cooper;
his sale, London, Christie's, 26th March 1928, lot 80 (bt. by Leggatt);
with Spink, London;
bt. by Bruce Ingram;
with Spink, London;
bt. by Viscount Lee of Fareham, 1928;
Samuel Courtauld;
bt. by R. A. Butler, 1947 and by descent;
Sotheby’s, London, 8th July 2010, lot 227.
W. G. Constable, Richard Wilson, London 1953, p. 177.
Included in the Richard Wilson Online Catalogue Raisonné, hosted by Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.