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Hampstead Heath

Maker

(artist)
1792-1882

Title

Hampstead Heath

Date of Production

1826

Medium

graphite and watercolour on laid paper, the right edge had been previously folded under

Dimensions

Height: 16.2 cm
Width: 27.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3303

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

Nicholson (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (verso, lower right), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Creative Quarters, Museum of London, 28/03/2001-15/07/2001

John Linnell Centenary Exhibition, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 05/10/1982-12/12/1982; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA, 01/01/1983-01/03/1983

English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/06/1979-01/09/1979 ...More

The Camden Scene, Camden Arts Centre, London, 07/02/1979-04/03/1979

English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/05/1977-01/06/1977

English Landscape Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/01/1965-01/05/1965

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948 ...Less

Literature

Creative Quarters, Museum of London, 2001

English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1979
cat. no. 65

English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1977
cat. no. 50 ...More

English Landscape Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965
cat. no. 54

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 33

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 53 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right edge, brown ink, described, signed and dated: "Hampstead J Linnell 1826_". Verso: lower left, graphite, circled: "685".

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

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