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Man and woman conversing in a landscape

Maker

(artist)
1804-1872

Title

Man and woman conversing in a landscape

Date of Production

1800 - 1899

Medium

pen and brown and grey ink, watercolour on wove paper, with a grey ink framing line

Dimensions

Height: 23.1 cm
Width: 18.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3085

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

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Provenance

Dr Carl Robert Rudolf, London (1884-1974); acquired in an exchange by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (verso, lower left), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 15

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, right edge, cut off at lower edge: "J WHATMAN / 1810" [? can only see tops of numbers, the circle of the fourth number is larger than that of the '8' so probably a zero].

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, grey ink, signed: "Alfred Crowquill. Deln". Verso: right lower edge, graphite, erased, hard to read: "Nan[...] / Best color as coat".

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

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