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View of Amsterdam

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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).

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