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Coast scene

Maker

(artist)
1776-1837

Title

Coast scene

Date of Production

(circa?) 1830

Medium

graphite on light buff, coarse wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 26.3 cm
Width: 37.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2696

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

Victor Rienaecker (1887- after 1957) [inscribed on former mount]; Squire Gallery (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

catalogue untraced, San Francisco, 1938

Richard Wilson and John Constable, Oxford Arts Club, 26/10/1937-18/11/1937

Literature

Reynolds, Graham, The later paintings and drawings of John Constable, New Haven: Yale University Press 1984
no. 24.58 on p. 146
pl. 531

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

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: none.

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

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