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Rock overgrown with trees and other vegetation

Maker

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1576-1639

Title

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash, watercolour, bodycolour on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 30.8 cm
Width: 39.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3268

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

Colville [as typed on Witt's index card - perhaps Norman Colville?]; Amos [as written on Witt's index card, unsure of this person or organisation's identity]; Schretlin [as added to notes in the file, unsure of person or organisation's identity]; Kunsthandlung Walter Hauth, Frankfurt [as indicated on Witt's index card]; Matthiesen (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962

Roelandt Savery 1576-1639, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Ghent, 10/04/1954-13/06/1954

Literature

Spicer-Durham, Joaneath, The drawings of Roelandt Savery, PhD thesis, Yale University 1979
p. 720
under 'erroneous attributions'

Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 44

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 129

Inscriptions

Watermark: Recto, left centre: Basle crozier on a crowned shield, above some letters, possibly "TN" (if letters read correctly, could be variant of Heawood 1198 - Louvain 1597. Peter Bower was unable to read the initials more clearly).

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink: "E^d". Verso: upper right corner, graphite: "N" or 'V"; upper right corner, brown ink, crossed out in brown ink: "24 8 i"; lower right, graphite: "40".

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

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