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Landscape with trees

Maker

(artist)
1783-1859

Title

Landscape with trees

Date of Production

1803 - 1859

Medium

black chalk on wove paper, laid down on support

Dimensions

Height: 9 cm
Width: 13.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1431

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.1423-1429 and 1432-1437, 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. 14

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

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

Inscription: Support, Recto: lower right corner, graphite, cut off: "2 / [more numbers below have been trimmed away]".

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