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View of Jarrow

Maker

(artist)
1825-1899

Title

View of Jarrow

Date of Production

1840 - 1899

Medium

graphite, grey and brown wash and white bodycolour on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 25.9 cm
Width: 35.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3079

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

sale of the artist's studio, L.368b (lower left), Christie's (London), 26 - 27 June 1899, probably lot 5 (with 2 others); purchased there (if lot 5) by Stevenson (?); Spencer (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (lower left), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952 The 1899 catalogue lists one of the drawings in lot 5 as ‘Jarrow’, but it is under the category of pencil drawings, when our drawing also has watercolour. There are other lots with unspecific names in the watercolour categories that this drawing could have been in, but only lot 5 specifically mentions a drawing of Jarrow.

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 19

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right, graphite: "Jarrow. BD" [the "D" forms a loop around the "B" - not at all like Birket Foster's monogram]. Verso: centre, graphite: “513“; lower right, graphite, Witt number: “3079“.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left, stamped in black: Myles Birket Foster (L.368b); lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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