Landscape with large tree
Maker
(artist)
1582-1656
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1607-1661
1582-1656
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1607-1661
Title
Landscape with large tree
Medium
graphite, pen and brown ink on laid paper with brown ink framing lines, laid down on a paper support
Dimensions
Height: 28.1 cm
Width: 20.6 cm
Width: 20.6 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.187
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
F.R. Meatyard (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£1.1, as by Cantagallina); Witt Bequest 1952
Inscriptions
Watermark: centre: an anchor with flukes of double lines; a flourish goes across the vertical bar (nothing similar found in Heawood, Briquet or Piccard; see sketch in file).
Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: lower centre, brown ink: Di Remigio Cantagallina.
Inscription: Recto: left centre edge, dark brown ink, slightly disturbed:29.
Inscription: Recto: lower right edge, light brown ink, cut off and hard to read:42 [?].
Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: lower right, graphite, second line erased: #294 / c/v/3[...] / 1 .
Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: lower left, graphite, Witt number: 187.
Collector's mark: Support (historic), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: lower centre, brown ink: Di Remigio Cantagallina.
Inscription: Recto: left centre edge, dark brown ink, slightly disturbed:29.
Inscription: Recto: lower right edge, light brown ink, cut off and hard to read:42 [?].
Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: lower right, graphite, second line erased: #294 / c/v/3[...] / 1 .
Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: lower left, graphite, Witt number: 187.
Collector's mark: Support (historic), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
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