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Landscape with large tree

Maker

(artist)
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

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).

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