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Landscape with ruins and figures

Maker

(artist)
1675-1735

Title

Landscape with ruins and figures

Date of Production

1600 - 1799

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash on brown-prepared laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, laid down on a historic blue mount

Dimensions

Height: 17.9 cm
Width: 24.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1799

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

A. Berthel, Surrey; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to mount.

Collector's mark: Mount (historic), Recto: lower left, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Recto: within the drawing, right lower edge, on edge of stone, brown ink, signed by artist: “A Rademaker”. Mount (historic), Recto: upper left corner, graphite, underlined: “No. 24”; lower centre, in cartouche, brown ink: “A. RADEMAKER”; lower right, graphite: “Q”. Mount (historic), Verso: upper right corner brown ink, underlined, partly obscured by tape: “114” [?]; left centre, graphite: “Q-” [not in Lugt]; left centre, stamped in blue ink: “136”; centre, brown ink: “Q.”; lower left of centre, brown ink: “Abraham Rademaker / Amsterdam 1675-1735. //”; lower left, graphite: “Ber 25”; lower left corner, brown ink cut off: “No. […]9”; lower right edge, graphite, cut off: “5[…]”; lower right corner, brown ink: “£ 8.0.0”; lower right edge, brown ink, cut off: “£[…]”.

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