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Wagon drawn by oxen and horses

Maker

Peter le Cave (artist)
1769-1801

Title

Wagon drawn by oxen and horses

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink, grey wash and watercolour on thick laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 28.7 cm
Width: 49.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3236

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

J.H. Price; purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 17 December 1936; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 17 February 1943 (£4); 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

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. 31

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. 6

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 45

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, lower left corner: "J WHATMAN".

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

Inscription: Verso: left upper edge, pen and brown ink, cut off: "[...]orner"; centre, graphite, underlined: "39".

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