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Coastal landscape with fortress and shipping (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1533-1578

Title

Coastal landscape with fortress and shipping (recto)

Date of Production

1565-1566 or 1571-1572

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink (recto and verso) on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 19.2 cm
Width: 27.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2381

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

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Provenance

J.N. Ridley; his sale, Sotheby's (London), 25 July 1928, lot 18; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 1: Landscape, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1972 (Jan.-Mar.)

Landscapes in the Making: Dutch & Flemish 16-17th Century Drawings from the Courtauld Gallery, Tobu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, 03/11/2000-24/12/2000; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, 02/02/2001-11/03/2001; Koriyama City Museum of Art, Koriyama, 17/03/2001-15/04/2001

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 03/09/1986-30/11/1986; The Drawing Center, New York, 08/04/1986-26/07/1986 ...More

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977-January 1978

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 01/09/1960-01/10/1960 ...Less

Literature

Nonner, Lukas, 'Cornelis Cort as a Landscape Draftsman' in 'Master Drawings', 2019 - pp. 53-70; LVII, 1
pp. 59, 62, 64
fig. 10 (recto) and fig. 11 (verso) on p. 59, fig. 20 (detail of inscription) on p. 64

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 36
ill. on p. 97

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 20 ...More

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 1: Landscape, Courtauld Gallery, London, January - March 1972
cat. no. 2

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1960
cat. no. 58

Haan, Bierens de, L' oeuvre gravé de Cornelis Cort, graveur hollandais 1533-1578, The Hague 1948
p. 225, no. 2
pls. 63, 64 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right edge, light brown ink: "Cornelius Cort von horn." [apparently not a signature but a late 16th/early 17th-century owner, see Nonner 2019 p. 64].

Collector's mark: none.

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