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Sheep and shepherd on the brow of a hill

Maker

(artist)
1759-1833

Title

Sheep and shepherd on the brow of a hill

Date of Production

1759 - 1833

Medium

black chalk (likely moistened in very dense areas) and black wash on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 11.1 cm
Width: 17.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1223

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

English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/06/1979-01/09/1979

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

Literature

English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1979
cat. no. 21

English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1977
cat. no. 10

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

Inscriptions

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: none.

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