Dunstanburgh Castle
Maker
(artist)
1769-1859
1769-1859
Title
Dunstanburgh Castle
Date of Production
(9 November) 1819
Medium
graphite, pen and ink (brown), watercolour on two sheets of wove paper joined, laid down on a card support, the verso of which is covered with half of a sheet of printed text
Dimensions
Height: 12.7 cm
Width: 38.2 cm
Width: 38.2 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.2855
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
Edward Speelman (London); purchased there by Colnaghi (London), 17 February 1936; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 21 September 1936, for £6; Witt Bequest 1952
Exhibition History
English Landscape Drawings [catalogue not found], Rye Art Gallery, England, 1971
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 54
Hubbard, Hesketh, Some Victorian Draughtsmen, Cambridge, 1944
pl. 7
p. 54
Hubbard, Hesketh, Some Victorian Draughtsmen, Cambridge, 1944
pl. 7
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to support; none evident in raking light.
Inscription: Dunstanburgh / Novr. 9th J.W RA 1819 //
Inscription: 10 / excretions are going on in a natural manner ... her veracity; and her abstinence continues after //
Inscription: Dunstanborough Castle
Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)
Inscription: Dunstanburgh / Novr. 9th J.W RA 1819 //
Inscription: 10 / excretions are going on in a natural manner ... her veracity; and her abstinence continues after //
Inscription: Dunstanborough Castle
Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)
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