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Landscape with cypresses

Maker

(artist)
1714-1782

Title

Landscape with cypresses

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

black and white chalk with stumping on blue (now grey) laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 22.3 cm
Width: 19.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1575

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






Cypresses

Provenance

friend of the artist, William Lock, Norbury Park (1732-1810); his sale, Christie's (London), 17 July 1821; purchased there by William Esdaile, London (1758-1837), L.2617; Sotheby's (London), 17 - 18 April 1923, lot 28; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) (£3.25); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

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

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943

Richard Wilson and John Constable, Oxford Arts Club, 26/10/1937-18/11/1937 ...More

Exhibition of late 18th and early 19th Century Art, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1933 (Jun.-Jul.)

Richard Wilson loan exhibition, City of Manchester Art Gallery, 22/10/1925-05/12/1925

Loan exhibition of works by Richard Wilson, Tate Gallery, London, 26/06/1925-30/09/1925 ...Less

Literature

English Landscape Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965
cat. no. 1

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 58

Witt, Sir Robert, 'Further Old Master drawings of the English School' in 'The Antique Collector', May 1936; VII
p. 115
fig. 3 on p. 115 ...More

Exhibition of late 18th and early 19th Century Art, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1933 ...Less

Inscriptions

Inscription: 1821 WE _ Lock's sale N126_P129 Wilson

Inscription: 1575

Collector's mark: collector's mark of William Esdaile (L.2617)

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