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Dunstanburgh Castle

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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)

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