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Flat landscape with road

Maker

(artist)
1759-1833

Title

Date of Production

1759 - 1833

Dimensions

Height: 17.6 cm
Width: 22.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1217

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

given by the artist to George Capel-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex, Cassiobury House (1757-1839); Cassiobury House sale, Hodgson & Co (London), 22 - 24 November 1922, lot 88 (as a volume of 18 drawings, including D.1952.RW.1216, 1217, 1217.1, 1220, 1223 and 1224); purchased there by Palser Gallery (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (mount, verso, lower right), n.d. (8 shillings); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

catalogue untraced, San Francisco, 1938

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 35

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: upper centre edge: “SNELGROVE / 1807”. Mount (historic), Verso: centre: Strasburg lily above cursive letters "PS" (not found in Churchill or Heawood, but "PS" likely for Phipps & Son). The mount was formed from two, possibly three pieces of laid paper laid atop one another, and so seen from the Recto, right centre, is visible another watermark in the mount: “PHIPPS & SON / 1809" and at centre is just visible “180[…]” from possibly a third sheet, as it is not aligned with the “1809” to its right.

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

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: lower right corner, graphite: "2a". Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower right, graphite: "Thomas Monro / 1759-1833 / Coll. Earl of Essex".

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