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River landscape with Flatford Mill

Maker

(artist)
1745-1821

Title

River landscape with Flatford Mill

Date of Production

1760 - 1821

Medium

graphite and black chalk on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 25.4 cm
Width: 32.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2744

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

Constable's country, Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, 05/06/1976-27/06/1976

Literature

George Frost 1745-1821, Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Suffolk, June 1974
note 17

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 20

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper left corner, brown ink: "2.". Verso: centre, graphite: “flood upon the Bridge-“.

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

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