View of Amsterdam
Maker
(artist)
1656-1703
1656-1703
Title
View of Amsterdam
Date of Production
1600 - 1699
Medium
graphite, watercolour on white laid paper, enclosed in a circular black ink framing line, and again in a square brown ink framing line with added gold borders
Dimensions
Diameter: 10.4 cm
Height: 11.5 cm
Height: 11.5 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.1187
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
D.B (? see verso inscription); F.B. Neumayer (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£1.4); Witt Bequst 1952
Exhibition History
Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 1: Landscape, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1972 (Jan.-Mar.)
Literature
Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 1: Landscape, Courtauld Gallery, London, January - March 1972
cat. no. 62
cat. no. 62
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Inscription: Verso (both the same as on D.1952.RW.1188): lower left corner, graphite: "Present van / d B //"; lower right, brown ink, signed by the artist?: "van Kal".
Collector's mark: Verso: lower right, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Verso (both the same as on D.1952.RW.1188): lower left corner, graphite: "Present van / d B //"; lower right, brown ink, signed by the artist?: "van Kal".
Collector's mark: Verso: lower right, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
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