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Landscape, with trees and a bank

Maker

(artist)
1776-1837

Title

Landscape, with trees and a bank

Date of Production

1796 - 1837

Medium

black chalk with stumping on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 30 cm
Width: 40.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2135

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

probably by descent from the artist to Isabel Constable, London (1822-1888); by descent to her nephew Clifford Constable; Christie's (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943

Centenary exhibition of paintings and water-colours by John Constable, R.A. (1776-1837), Tate Gallery, London, 04/05/1937-31/08/1937

Desenul şi gravura englezá, secole le XVIII-XX. Expoziţie de desen, acuaretà, pastel şi gravurǎ subtoate formele / Ausstellung von Britischen Aquarellen Zeichnungen, Muzeul Roma Stelian, Bucharest; Prague; Vienna, 15/12/1935-02/03/1936

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 11

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, graphite: "x". Verso: upper right of centre edge, graphite: "no mount"; centre, graphite, hard to read: "Taller [or rather?] Clease?"; right of centre, graphite: "No 22".

Collector's mark: none.

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