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Seascape - shipping off the coast

Maker

(artist)
1630-1708

Title

Seascape - shipping off the coast

Date of Production

1664

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink, grey and black wash on laid paper, now laid down on Japanese tissue

Dimensions

Height: 16.7 cm
Width: 23.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.29

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

Marquis of Lansdowne; E. Parsons & Sons (London), cat. 38, 1921, lot 74; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) (£11.85); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 1: Landscape, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1972 (Jan.-Mar.)

Landscapes in the Making: Dutch & Flemish 16-17th Century Drawings from the Courtauld Gallery, Tobu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, 03/11/2000-24/12/2000; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, 02/02/2001-11/03/2001; Koriyama City Museum of Art, Koriyama, 17/03/2001-15/04/2001

Master Drawings of the 17th century from the Witt Collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Festival Exhibitions, Adelaide, 1968 ...More

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943 ...Less

Literature

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 1: Landscape, Courtauld Gallery, London, January - March 1972
cat. no. 45
no. 45

Inscriptions

Watermark: upper centre edge, fragment: top of a crowned shield (see tracing in file).

Inscription: Recto: within the drawing, lower left on wood, grey ink, signed and dated by the artist: "Backs 1664". Tracing of an inscription in file, says is on the verso of the drawing but is no longer visible, unclear in the tracing: “baÿle & longna J Toucheron L’ecit [?] / No 322”.

Collector's mark: none.

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