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Landscape with cottages and a windmill

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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?].

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