Landscape with trees and cattle - two cows and a calf standing by a clump of small trees to the right
Maker
(artist)
1733-1807
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
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
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
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).
Inscription: none.
Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
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