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Ramsgate Harbour

Maker

(artist)
1757-1827

Title

Ramsgate Harbour

Date of Production

(after?) 1791

Medium

graphite, pen and grey and brown ink, watercolour on laid paper, laid down on card

Dimensions

Height: 21.7 cm
Width: 31.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3059

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

Fine Art Society (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

A loan exhibition of important drawings by Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, Ellis & Smith's Galleries, London, 06/05/1948-29/05/1948

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 42

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre (only visible in raking light due to card support): a Strasburg bend above letters, possibly "L V G".

Inscription: Support (historic), Verso: upper left, graphite, erased: "3030 / cost gm/-/"; centre, graphite, underlined: "Ramsgate Harbour"; lower left, graphite, erased: "#6"; lower right, graphite: "204[?]15". Mount (removed, see photo), recto, lower right, graphite: "Thomas Rowlandson / 1756-1827 / Ramsgate Harbour".

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

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