Study of a thistle (recto)
Maker
(artist)
1783-1859
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
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
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.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: none.
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