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Landscape with a distant view of Windsor (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1783-1859

Title

Landscape with a distant view of Windsor (recto)

Date of Production

1803 - 1859

Medium

charcoal (recto), cream pigment layer and charcoal (verso), on wove paper (examined under microscope with Paper Conservator)

Dimensions

Height: 27.6 cm
Width: 38.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1432

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); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, before 1946 (along with RW.1423-1431 and 1433-1437, 10 shillings each); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

David Cox 1783-1859, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; Victoria & Albert Museum, 26/07/1983-14/10/1983

English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/06/1979-01/09/1979

Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours from the Spooner and Witt Collections, Australia, New Zealand, 1976-78 ...More

English Landscape Drawings [catalogue not found], Rye Art Gallery, England, 1971

Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours, Manor House Museum, 1966

English Landscape Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/01/1965-01/05/1965

Centenary Exhibition of the Work of David Cox, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery & Birmingham & England, 1959

Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1958-59

Three Centuries of British Watercolours and Drawings, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1951

Meisterwerke englischer Malerei aus drei Jahrhunderten, Vienna, 1927

Annual exhibition of water colour drawings, Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1923 ...Less

Literature

David Cox: 1783-1859, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery; V&A, London, 1983-84
no. 74
Illus. on p. 88

David Cox 1783-1859, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery; Victoria & Albert Museum, 1983
cat. no. 74
Illus. repr.

English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1979
cat. no. 58 ...More

Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours from the Spooner and Witt Collections, Australia, New Zealand, 1976 - 1978
cat. no. 46

English Landscape Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965
cat. no. 32

Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1958 - 1959
cat. no. 62

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 14

Three Centuries of British Watercolours and Drawings, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1951
cat. no. 44

Cox, Trenchard, David Cox, London: Phoenix House, 1947
p. 117
pl. 31

Roe, F. Gordon, Cox the Master: The Life and Art of David Cox (1783-1859), Leigh-on-Sea: F. Lewis, 1946
Plate 32

Fry, Roger, Reflections on British painting, London: Faber and Faber, 1934
pl. xix ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

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

Inscription: none.

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