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French Protestant church at Aldersgate (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1793-1864

Title

French Protestant church at Aldersgate (recto)

Date of Production

1793 - 1864

Medium

graphite and watercolour with some scratching out (recto), pen and brown ink (verso) on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 9.3 cm
Width: 11.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3259

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

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Provenance

Fine Art Society (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (verso, lower left), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 46

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, upper centre, cut off: "[...]AN / [...] LL" (probably "J WHATMAN / TURKEY MILL").

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

Inscription: Recto: lower left, brown ink, signed: “T. HOSMER. SHEPHERD.“. Verso: upper centre, graphite, partly erased: “French Protestant Church / Aldersgate St”; left centre, graphite, circled: “182”; centre, graphite: “French Protestant Church / St. Martins le Grand / Aldersgate St. / Pulled down 1888”; lower left, graphite, hard to read: “giTr [?]”. Support (removed, see photo), Recto: lower left edge, graphite: “102 T.H. Shepherd / French Protestant Church Aldersgate / pulled down in 1866 £1.1.0”. Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower right, graphite: “Thomas Hosmer Shepherd / c. 1824 - c. 1842 / The French Protestant Church, Aldersgate. / (pulled down 1888) / Signed. T. Hosmer Shepherd.”.

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