Landscape with cottages and a windmill
Maker
(artist)
1745-1821
1745-1821
Title
Landscape with cottages and a windmill
Date of Production
1760 - 1821
Medium
black chalk on grey wove paper
Dimensions
Height: 26.6 cm
Width: 32.9 cm
Width: 32.9 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.2742
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
Appleby Bros (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.(4 shillings); Witt Bequest 1952
Exhibition History
British country life through the centuries, 39 Grosvenor Square, London, 1937
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 20
p. 20
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Inscription: Mount (removed, cut down and now in object file): graphite: "Exh. Country Life 1937 / 2742 . George Frost".
Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black, fragment: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b) [trimmed after being in Witt's collection? Or was the rest of the stamp onto the mount, now removed?].
Inscription: Mount (removed, cut down and now in object file): graphite: "Exh. Country Life 1937 / 2742 . George Frost".
Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black, fragment: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b) [trimmed after being in Witt's collection? Or was the rest of the stamp onto the mount, now removed?].
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