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Landscape with river and castle

Maker

(artist)
1728-1792

Title

Landscape with river and castle

Date of Production

1783

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, grey wash on laid paper, laid down on a historic wash mount

Dimensions

Height: 24.7 cm
Width: 30.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3171

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




Label Text

Robert Adam drew a series of imaginary landscape compositions such as this during the last fifteen years of his life. As his architectural practice grew, and necessarily became increasingly standardised, such fantasy drawings provided Adam with a means of private recreation; they were never exhibited.

Notes

A drawing with a similar castle, dated 1782, is in the Soane Museum (reproduced in The Architectural Review, January 1925, pl. III), titled 'Romantic Composition' and dated 1782.

Provenance

F.R. Meatyard (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

English Landscape Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/01/1965-01/05/1965

Literature

English Landscape Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965
cat. no. 22

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 3

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Mount (removed), Recto: lower left, graphite: "Robt Adam 1783".

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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