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Landscape with mountains in the background

Maker

(artist)
1802-1873

Title

Landscape with mountains in the background

Date of Production

1800 - 1899

Medium

black and white chalk on wove paper (now browned)

Dimensions

Height: 8.8 cm
Width: 11.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1649.1

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

purchased from an unknown source by Colnaghi (London), 16 September 1935; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), that same day (£1, including 1649.2-.3, in part exchange for a large group of drawings Witt brought into Colnaghi that same day); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 30

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: ? Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black: "X" (not in Lugt).

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