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Distant view of Florence

Maker

(artist)
1656-1703

Title

Distant view of Florence

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

graphite, watercolour on white laid paper, enclosed by a circular brown ink framing line, and again in a square brown ink framing line, with gold borders

Dimensions

Height: 11.8 cm
Width: 11.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1188

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. (£1.15); 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. 65

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso (both the same as on D.1952.RW.1187): lower left corner, graphite: "Present van / d B //"; lower right, brown ink, signed by the artist?: "van Ka" ["l" at the end has been rubbed away, evident under UV].

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

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