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Landscape with a rock bank

Maker

(artist)
1783-1859

Title

Date of Production

1803 - 1859

Medium

brown chalk and brown wash with scratching out on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.1 cm
Width: 14.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2522

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

Label Text

This unusual drawing is closely related in subject matter and format to a drawing in the Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery (A Risky Position, 1843). Cox was by then enjoying greater freedom, having left London and retired from his teaching practice. The chalk in this almost impressionistic sketch appears to have been applied mixed with water and thickening medium before being manipulated with a flat blade. Highlights have been scratched into the surface.

Provenance

by descent to Hannah Cox (1840-1909), granddaughter of the artist; sold by her to Walker Galleries (London), 1904 (see her letter in file for D.1952.RW.1432); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

A Passion for Drawings, Collectors at the Courtauld, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 28/02/2002-09/06/2002

English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/06/1979-01/09/1979

English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/05/1977-01/06/1977 ...More

English Landscape Drawings [catalogue not found], Rye Art Gallery, England, 1971

Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours, Manor House Museum, 1966 ...Less

Literature

English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1979
cat. no. 57

English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1977
cat. no. 43

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 14

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: none.

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