Wooded landscape with figure resting against felled tree trunk (recto)
Maker
(artist)
1759-1833
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
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
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
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.
Inscription: none.
Collector's mark: none.
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