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Houses at Knaresborough

Maker

(artist)
1783-1859

Title

Houses at Knaresborough

Date of Production

(10 September) 1844

Medium

black chalk with stumping on wove paper (now discoloured) (examined under microscope)

Dimensions

Height: 19.1 cm
Width: 27.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1434

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.1423-1433 and 1436-1437, 10 shillings each); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours, Manor House Museum, 1966

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948

Literature

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

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 16

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left, black chalk, located and dated: "Knaresbrough Sep '10 1844".

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

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