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Warrior on horseback riding through a town

Maker

(artist)
1540-1609

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1615-1673

Title

Warrior on horseback riding through a town

Date of Production

1555 - 1609

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, white bodycolour on blue laid paper, the verso prepared with a red-brown (chalk?) wash

Dimensions

Height: 21.8 cm
Width: 16.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2699

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

Has. (as per the Witt card); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Support (removed but still mounted with the drawing), Verso: left edge: “PINESMITH&ALLNUTT / 1815 //”.

Inscription: Support (removed but still mounted with the drawing), Recto: upper left, graphite: “b-101-6” (same type as on D.1952.RW.2704); lower centre, graphite: “Salvator Rosa”; lower right corner, graphite, number abraded: “No 15” [?]. Support (removed but still mounted with the drawing), Verso: upper centre, graphite, underlined: “HS”; centre, graphite, large: “312” (succeeding the number on the support for D.1952.RW.2704).

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left edge and again on lower right edge on a remnant of a former backing sheet, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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