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Stream running into a wood

Maker

(artist)
1758-1810

Title

Stream running into a wood

Date of Production

1758 - 1810

Medium

synthetic? black chalk and brown wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 19.3 cm
Width: 25.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3135

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

D.G.B. Smith; purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 27 October 1942; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 27 October 1942, for £20; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, American Federation of the Arts, Washington, D.C. and nine cities in the USA, 1951

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949 - 1950

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 27

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949-50
no. 32

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: Brittania, unable to see details clearly enough to identify further, but in Churchill all Brittania marks dated to 2nd half of 18th century and first decade of 19th.

Inscription: Verso: upper left, red-orange crayon: "38 Hoppne [sic]".

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

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