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Leadenhall market

Maker

(artist)
1811-1880

Title

Leadenhall market

Date of Production

(15 May) 1829

Medium

graphite and watercolour on wove paper, framed in graphite

Dimensions

Height: 19.5 cm
Width: 32.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3281

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

exhibited at Fine Art Society (London), April 1943, no. 64; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, May 1943; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Exhibition of watercolour drawings of London and the Thames by 18th and early 19th century artists, Fine Art Society, London, 1943 (April)

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 13

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

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

Label: Removed (now in object file), printed and written in black ink: "THE FINE ART SOCIETY, LTD., / 148 NEW BOND STREET, LONDON, W.1 / By Appointment to H.M. QUEEN MARY / TITLE Leadenhall Market / Drawing by / ARTIST E.W. Cooke Ra / No 64 DATE May 1943".

Inscription: Recto: upper centre edge, graphite, artist's hand: "St Michaels / Cornhill" and "St Peters Cornhill"; lower centre edge, graphite, artist's hand: "Leadenhall"; lower right edge, graphite, located, dated and signed with initials: "Hide of Leather Market. Tuesday 15 May 1829 E. W. C.". Verso: lower right, graphite: "Leadenhall hide + leather market / Tuesday. 15th May 1829. E.W. Cooke / (St Michael's + St Peter's, Cornhill)"; lower right corner, graphite, cut off: "2 [?]".

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