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Wooded landscape with figure resting against felled tree trunk (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1759-1833

Title

Wooded landscape with figure resting against felled tree trunk (recto)

Date of Production

1759 - 1833

Medium

black chalk (likely moistened in very dense areas) and black wash (recto and verso) on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 17.6 cm
Width: 26.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1220

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., for 8 shillings; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours from the Spooner and Witt Collections, Australia, New Zealand, 1976-78

English Landscape Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/01/1965-01/05/1965

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

Bicentenary memorial exhibition of Thomas Gainsborough: illustrating the various periods of his work, also the work of his contemporaries and his influence on the art of his own and later times., Ipswich Museum, 07/10/1927-05/11/1927 ...Less

Literature

Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours from the Spooner and Witt Collections, Australia, New Zealand, 1976 - 1978
cat. no. 13

English Landscape Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965
cat. no. 14

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

British Art Exhibition: commemorative catalogue, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1934
cat. no. 1152
no. 714 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: none.

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