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Almshouses at Glastonbury

Maker

(artist)
1767-1816

Title

Almshouses at Glastonbury

Date of Production

1847

Medium

graphite and blue-grey wash on wove paper, surrounded by a historic paper support border

Dimensions

Height: 17.3 cm
Width: 24.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1137

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




almshouses



Provenance

Beckford, 1847 [according to an inscription on the now absent mount; William Beckford's collection? However he died in 1844 and his only sale in 1847 did not include drawings]; Palser and Son (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£1); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 3

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: upper centre edge, graphite: "Alms Houses at Glastonbury, Somersetshire."; upper right, graphite: "17352"; centre, graphite, Witt number: "1137". Verso (removed? now missing): pen and brown ink: "from the Beckford Collection 1847".

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

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