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Landscape with trees and cattle - two cows and a calf standing by a clump of small trees to the right

Maker

(artist)
1733-1807

Title

Landscape with trees and cattle - two cows and a calf standing by a clump of small trees to the right

Date of Production

(circa) 1780

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolour on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 30 cm
Width: 43.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3113

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

M. Bernard (London); purchased there by Colnaghi (London), 9 January 1942; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 6 May 1942 (£9); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Englische Aquarelle, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, and China, 1963-64

Seventy Years of British Painting, London & England, 1960

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 23

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 30

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: "IV".

Inscription: none.

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

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