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Landscape with sheep and donkeys

Maker

(artist)
1802-1873

Title

Landscape with sheep and donkeys

Date of Production

1818

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown wash and touches of white bodycolour on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 9.1 cm
Width: 23 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1006

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Provenance

E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£2.5); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

The Life and Work of Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A., Sheffield, 06/02/1972-12/03/1972

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 30

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Verso, lower left, cut off by lower edge, the letters on the second line much smaller than on the first: "[...]AN / [...]L" (probably "J WHATMAN / TURKEY MILL").

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink, signed with initials and dated: "EL. / 1818.". Verso, upper left, graphite, erased: 2 lines of text now largely illegible; upper right, graphite, underlined: "E Landseer".

Collector's mark: Verso: lower right corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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