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Ruined town wall and figures

Maker

Leendert Brasser (artist)
1727-1793

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1622-1674

Title

Ruined town wall and figures

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

graphite, grey wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines partly trimmed away

Dimensions

Height: 15.3 cm
Width: 11 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.301

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

Godin-Deheselle (probably a 20th-century collection); Joseph Baer (Frankfurt), n.d., lot 1032 (as by Lingelbach and having belonged to the Godin-Deheselle collection - see clipping in file); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) (£1.25); Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, brown ink: B.Sc. Verso: lower left, graphite: 124.

Collector's mark: none.

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