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Silver Island on the Yangtse River

Maker

(artist)
1804-1872

Title

Silver Island on the Yangtse River

Date of Production

(circa) 1843

Medium

graphite, brown wash, white bodycolour on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 12.7 cm
Width: 19.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1140

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

Palser and Son (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (with D.1952.RW.1141 and others, n.d., for £1.5); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Imagining Islands, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 20/06/2013-21/07/2013

Literature

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

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, graphite and again in lower left corner, red chalk: “114”. Verso: centre, black chalk: 2 scribbles, could be a messy “33”.

Collector's mark: Removed from a former mount or support: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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