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Wooded landscape (recto)
Study of a tree (verso)

Maker

(artist)
1783-1859

Title

Wooded landscape (recto)
Study of a tree (verso)

Date of Production

1803 - 1859

Medium

charcoal with added oil and stumping (recto and verso) on wove paper (examined under microscope with Paper Conservator)

Dimensions

Height: 19.6 cm
Width: 27.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1424

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

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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), L.2228b, before 1946 (along with RW.1423 and 1425-1437, 10 shillings each); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

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

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: (within drawing), lower left, charcoal, artist's hand: "River".

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

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