Landscape with ruins and figures
Maker
Copy after
(artist)
1733-1808
(artist)
1733-1808
Title
Landscape with ruins and figures
Date of Production
1700 - 1799
Medium
graphite, pen and grey ink, watercolour on laid paper, inset into a historic mount
Dimensions
Height: 18.8 cm
Width: 26.6 cm
Width: 26.6 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3254
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
Adolf Fritz Mondschein, Vienna, changed to Frederick Mont after moving to New York in 1930 (1894-1994); purchased from him by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952
Inscriptions
Watermark: centre: lines just visible in raking light, but due to mount unable to see more clearly.
Collector's mark: Mount (historic), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Mount (historic), Verso: a printed page from a book of accounts, beginning with “3 Juill. 1781” going through “11 Juin 1790”, including references to a “M. de Nugent”, “Logement des Suisses” and “Réparations faites aux Maisons substituées & dépenses diverses” [not fully transcribed]; upper centre edge, graphite: “#1”.
Collector's mark: Mount (historic), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Mount (historic), Verso: a printed page from a book of accounts, beginning with “3 Juill. 1781” going through “11 Juin 1790”, including references to a “M. de Nugent”, “Logement des Suisses” and “Réparations faites aux Maisons substituées & dépenses diverses” [not fully transcribed]; upper centre edge, graphite: “#1”.
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