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Landscape with figures and a ruined arch

Maker

Copy after
(artist)
1711-1767

Title

Landscape with figures and a ruined arch

Date of Production

(?) 1766

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper treated with a varnish, inlaid into a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 32.4 cm
Width: 43.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2935

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

Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b; Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: left centre, difficult to see due to mount: "I" or "L"?

Inscription: Recto: upper left within the drawing, above the arch, brown ink: “R C R” and scribbles approximating lines of text below; lower left corner, brown ink: “1766”. Mount (historic), Recto: lower left corner, brown ink: “Joseph Zocchi del.” and below that in graphite, Witt number: “2935”; lower centre, graphite: “dated 1766”, and below that is a brown ink inscription that has been trimmed away; lower right corner, graphite: “1711-1767”. Mount (historic), Verso: upper left corner, graphite: “Septa drawing”; upper right, graphite: “mt”; lower centre, graphite: “Replica of Louvre / C”; lower left corner, blue crayon: “Cl” [or “A”].

Collector's mark: Mount (historic), Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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