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Well on the road from East Bergholt to Ipswich

Maker

(artist)
1776-1837

Title

Well on the road from East Bergholt to Ipswich

Date of Production

1798

Medium

pen and grey-brown ink, brown, grey and blue wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 19.1 cm
Width: 15.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1754

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 from the artist to Isabel Constable, London (1822-1888); Countess of Strafford, her sale, Christie's (London), 30 November 1892, lot 113 (as 'A Watermill'); Frederick Anthony White, London (1842-before 1934); Leggatt Bros (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Constable: master draughtsman, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Frick Collection, New York, 13/07/1994-12/02/1995

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

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

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 01/09/1960-01/10/1960

Constable, Bonington, C. Pissarro, Stafford Gallery, London, 31/05/1939-17/06/1939

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

Literature

Reynolds, Graham, The early paintings and drawings of John Constable, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996
no. 98.3. on pp. 17-18

Constable, a Master Draughtsman, Dulwich Picture Gallery, 1994
p. 52
Fig. p. 53

English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1979
cat. no. 45 ...More

Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours from the Spooner and Witt Collections, Australia, New Zealand, 1976 - 1978
cat. no. 39
Illus. repr.

English Landscape Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965
cat. no. 28

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1960
cat. no. 6

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 11

Beckett, R.B., 'Constable's Early Drawings' in The Art Quarterly, Winter 1954; 17, no. 4
pp. 375, 381

Key, Sidney J., John Constable: his life and works, London: Phoenix House 1948
p. 15

Constable, Bonington, C. Pissarro, Stafford Gallery, London, 1939
cat. no. 56 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left lower edge, bottoms of letters: "T L" (see tracing in file, not found in Heawood).

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

Inscription: Verso: centre, graphite, artist's hand: "Well on the Road from / E.B. to Ipsch done in / a gig by J.T.S. + / this my copy from it"; lower centre edge, underlined: "37"; lower right corner, graphite, cut off: "73".

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