Italian seaport

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Maker

(artist)
1616-1677

Title

Italian seaport

Date of Production

1600-1699

Medium

graphite, grey wash, white bodycolour on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 15.3 cm
Width: 23.2 cm

Object Number

D.1952.RW.325

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Inscriptions

Watermark: Centre: small letters "FB" (not found in Heawood or Piccard).

Inscription: Recto: within drawing, lower right on rock, grey ink, signed with artist's monogram: "TW". Verso: centre, graphite: "5"; right of centre, graphite: "151/21"; lower left corner, graphite: "Th. Wyck No. 12 / 60"; lower left corner, brown ink: "N.2235."; lower left corner, graphite: "N_125". Historic inner mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower right edge, graphite: horizontal arrow pointing leftwards; right lower edge, graphite: vertical arrow pointing upwards; lower right corner, graphite: "Thomas Wyck / Dutch c. 1616–1677 / Signed T. W. / Coll. Fairfax Murray". Historic secondary support (cut up and glued to the lower left corner on the verso of the historic inner mount), graphite: "Thomas Wyck / Dutch c. 1616–1677 / Signed T. W. / Coll. Fairfax Murray"; graphite, circled: "no 18". Historic outer mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower left, graphite, Witt number: "325"; lower right, graphite: "T. Wyck".

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

Provenance

Charles Fairfax Murray, London (1849-1919); his estate sale, Christie's (London), 30 January 1920, lot 152 (with 4 others); purchased there by E. Parsons & Sons (£3.15 for all); F.R. Meatyard (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£3); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 1: Landscape, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1972 (Jan.-Mar.)

Literature

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 1: Landscape, Courtauld Gallery, London, January - March 1972
cat. no. 37

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