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Rocky landscape with ruins and figures climbing slope

Maker

(artist)
1610-1690

Title

Rocky landscape with ruins and figures climbing slope

Date of Production

(c.) 1664

Medium

black chalk, grey wash, traces of white bodycolour on laid paper, with black ink framing lines, laid down on a historic support

Dimensions

Height: 30.9 cm
Width: 40.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3153

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

Anton Mensing, Amsterdam (1866-1936); his estate sale, Frederik Muller & Cie (Amsterdam), 24 - 29 April 1937, lot 811; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 17 October 1942 (£6); Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: unable to check the drawing due to thick weave of support. Support (historic): centre: unable to see clearly due to thick weave.

Inscription: Recto: lower centre edge, grey ink, signed with the artist's monogram: "AW.". Support (historic), Recto: upper left corner, graphite: "18"; lower left corner, first initial and date in brown ink, surname in black ink: "A Waterloo. .1664"; lower centre edge, brown ink, with arrow pointing up: "(Signature)". Support (historic), Verso: upper left corner, on remannt of former backing sheet, graphite, unclear: "natj [?]"; centre, graphite, underlined: "Ante Waterloo" [the first "e" superscript]; lower right, graphite: "TR/-/-"; lower centre edge, graphite: "102".

Collector's mark: Support (historic), Recto: lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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