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Study of a thistle (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1783-1859

Title

Study of a thistle (recto)

Date of Production

1803 - 1859

Medium

graphite and watercolour (recto and verso) on textured wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 17.6 cm
Width: 15.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1423

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

by descent to the artist's granddaughter, Hannah Cox (1840-1909); sold by her to Walker Galleries (London), 1904 (see her letter in file for D.1952.RW.1432); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), before 1946 (along with RW.1424-1437, 10 shillings each); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours, Manor House Museum, 1966

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 13

William, Iolo A., Early English Watercolours, London: The Connoisseur, 1952
pp. 178, 207

Roe, F. Gordon, Cox the Master: The Life and Art of David Cox (1783-1859), Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1946
Plate 1

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: none.

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