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Extensive landscape

Maker

(artist)
1690-1748

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1616-1677

Title

Extensive landscape

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper, with graphite framing lines, laid down on card

Dimensions

Height: 22.8 cm
Width: 35.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1163

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

Label Text

A specific locale for this patchwork of fields and low hills has not been identified; however, it encapsulates much that is typical of Dutch landscape, from the topography to the bird’s-eye perspective. The insistent horizontality of the closely packed parallel hatching enhances the sense of breadth. The perspective and the firm framing line suggest a sense of ownership of the land; perhaps the drawing was made for a landowner. Wilkens worked mainly in Italy; Dutch landscapes are relatively rare in his surviving oeuvre.

Provenance

Hugh Howard, London (1675-1737); by descent to Charles Francis Arnold Howard, 5th Earl of Wicklow (1839-1881); probably his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 12 December 1873, lot 1035 (as by Jan Wyck); purchased there by Dalting (? annotated catalogue is difficult to read, see in file); Henry Gay Hewlett, Kent (1832-1897); his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 28 - 29 November 1922, lot 47 (as by Wyck); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (£4); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Drawings Gallery Display - Panorama, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 26/09/2015-10/01/2016

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to card backing.

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

Inscription: Recto: within the drawing, lower left on hill, brown ink, signed with artist’s monogram: “TW:”. Verso (card): lower left graphite: “Coll. Hugh Howards / 1163 Thomas Wyck //”.

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