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View of Tintern Abbey

Maker

(artist)
1769-1859

Title

View of Tintern Abbey

Date of Production

1801-1859

Medium

graphite, wash (grey) on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 26.6 cm
Width: 37.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3318

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

Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Tintern Abbey, Chepstow Museum, Chepstow, UK, 24/05/2014-28/09/2014

James Ward and romantic paintings of his period, Roland Browse and Delbanco, London, 1952

Literature

Sites of Inspiration: Tintern Abbey, Chepstow Museum, 2014
no. 47

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 54

Inscriptions

Inscription: Tintern Abbey JWD RA.

Inscription: ROC. + Co / T/-/- / £4/4/- / Exhibited Browse & Delbanco. London. 1952 / James Ward Tintern Abbey //

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

Inscription: 1801 / J WHATMAN //

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