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Sailing vessel

Maker

(artist)
1633-1707

Title

Sailing vessel

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

pen and grey and brown ink, grey wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 44 cm
Width: 31.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1241

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

William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney (1835-1909); by descent to his wife, Margaret Susan Mitford (1835-1919); her estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 14 December 1921, one of lots 99, 100, 103, 105, 108, 110 or 112; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (13 shillings); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

A Passion for Drawings, Collectors at the Courtauld, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 28/02/2002-09/06/2002

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943

Exhibition of paintings: seventeenth century Dutch and Flemish schools, loaned by the Trustees of the National Gallery, and drawings loaned by Sir Robert Witt, C.B.E. and Lady Witt., Hanley Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, 29/02/1928-26/05/1928; City of York Museum and Art Gallery, York, 01/06/1928-01/09/1928

Literature

Exhibition of paintings : seventeenth century dutch and flemish schools, loaned by the Trustees of the National Gallery, and drawings loaned by Sir Robert Witt, C.B.E. and Lady Witt., Hanley Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent and City of York Museum and Art Gallery, York, 1928, 1928
cat. no. 45

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: lower centre: coat of arms, a crowned oval flanked by griffons containing a cross, stacked above a circle containing "o o" stacked above a circle containing "2" (not found in Heawood, Churchill or Piccard).

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

Inscription: Recto: left lower edge, graphite: "orisont"; right lower edge, graphite: "x"; lower left edge, grey ink: "slagh bogh hut op Leet [?]".

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