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Flat landscape with trees and road

Maker

(artist)
1759-1833

Title

Date of Production

1759 - 1833

Medium

black chalk and black wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 14 cm
Width: 18.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1217.1

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), n.d. (8 shillings); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/05/1977-01/06/1977

British Art Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 06/01/1934-10/03/1934

Literature

English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1977
cat. no. 11

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

British Art Exhibition: commemorative catalogue, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1934
cat. no. 1208
no. 715

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: upper centre edge, fragment: lower edge of what Churchill defines as Seven Provinces mark, with lion rampant in a circle which has four-leaf flowers in the outer border - Dutch and English paper dated late 17th to late 18th centuries.

Inscription: Recto: lower right, brown ink, requires UV to read clearly, written upside down: "(2480)" (related to inscription on verso). Verso: lower left corner, brown ink: "(2479)".

Collector's mark: none.

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