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Emmerich on the Rhine

Maker

(artist)
1703-1785

Title

Emmerich on the Rhine

Date of Production

1739

Medium

graphite, pen and brown and grey ink, watercolour, bodycolour, on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines partly trimmed away

Dimensions

Height: 14 cm
Width: 18.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2784

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

Sotheby's (London), 1 July 1936, lot 24; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Empire Art Loan Collections Society Exhibition, South Africa, 1937-38

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: within drawing, right lower edge on building, brown ink, signed and dated by the artist, first three letters monogram: "JBD: ad vivi del / 1739. //". Verso: upper centre, brown ink: "Gezigt f Emeris. [macron over “m”] / No3 //".

Collector's mark: none.

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