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The funeral of the Lord of Ringstetten - illustration to 'Undine' (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1815-1905

Title

The funeral of the Lord of Ringstetten - illustration to 'Undine' (recto)

Date of Production

1835 - 1905

Medium

graphite, watercolour on buff wove paper, cut into an oval and laid down on a paper support (now very dirty) and framed in pen and brown ink (recto), graphite (verso of support)

Dimensions

Height: 18 cm
Width: 20.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2458

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

given to Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 13

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Mount, Recto: lower centre, brown ink, artist's hand?: "Edward Henry Corbould. sketch for picture painted for H.R.H. The Crown Princess of Prussia. / The funeral of The Lord of Ringstetten . (Undine.)".

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

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