Landscape with ruins and figures
Maker
(artist)
1675-1735
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
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: “£[…]”.
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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