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Tree

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1662-1747

Attributed to
(artist)
1591-1666

Title

Tree

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, laid down on an historic support; upper right corner lost

Dimensions

Height: 33.7 cm
Width: 24.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.205

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

unidentified collector (not in Lugt); F.R. Meatyard (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d. (£1.5); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962

Literature

Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 80

Inscriptions

Collector's mark: Support (historic), Recto: lower right corner, blindstamped but with some black ink deposited: unidentified collector's mark (not in Lugt)

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

Watermark: centre: shield containing a star above the letter “M” (similar marks but with shield differently shaped: Briquet 8390-8392 – Florence 1529, Luca 1578-79, Ferrara 1580 and Fabriano 1596 – and Piccard 28820 – Biberach 1606). Support (historic), Verso: centre, circle with a border containing a fleur-de-lis (seems to match Fabriano mark, Heawood 1594, though without any of the lettering).

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