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Marsden Rock

Maker

(artist)
1714-1782

Title

Marsden Rock

Medium

black and white chalk, brown ink applied with a dry brush, on coarse brown wove paper, framed in black chalk

Dimensions

Height: 18.4 cm
Width: 22.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2846

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

G. Green; purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 13 January 1937; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 30 September 1937; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 58

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left centre: letter "S" above a large circle containing a thick fleur-de-lis (nothing similar found in Heawood or Churchill).

Inscription: R.W.F.

Inscription: Wilson

Inscription: Marsden Rock

Inscription: C&

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