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Flat and distant landscape

Maker

(artist)
1759-1833

Title

Date of Production

1759 - 1833

Medium

black and white chalk, black wash on blue wove paper laid down on a historic paper support (same support used for RW.2294)

Dimensions

Height: 14.8 cm
Width: 24.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2293

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

flat

Provenance

given by the artist to George Capel-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex, Cassiobury House (1757-1839); Cassiobury House sale, Hodgson & Co (London), 22 - 24 November 1922, possibly lot 88 (as a volume of 18 drawings, including D.1952.RW.1216, 1217, 1217.1, 1220, 1223, 1224 and 2294); purchased there by Palser Gallery (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (lower left), n.d. (£1); Witt Bequest 1952 As RW.2293 and 2294 are at a remove from the other Monro drawings Witt purchased from Palser, it is not a sure thing that they also came from lot 88 at the Cassiobury House sale, especially as the price paid for each of those in lot 88 was 8 shillings, while 2293 and 2994 each cost £1. 2293 and 2294 also are laid down on the same paper supports, which differ from the other drawings still laid down on their mounts.

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 35

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: Support (historic), Recto: lower left, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Verso: centre, graphite, circled: "45". Support (historic), Recto: lower left, graphite: "#14". Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower right, graphite: "Dr Thomas Monro / 1759-1833 / Coll. Essex".

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