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Staircase at Ashridge

Maker

(artist)
1769-1821

Title

Staircase at Ashridge

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolour on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 43.8 cm
Width: 33 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3352

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

Charles Long, Baron Farnborough (1761-1838); Leonard G. Duke, London (1890-1971); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 24 October 1943; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 10 November 1943 (£7.10); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

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

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 17

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 23

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Label: Verso: lower right corner, graphite, unclear: "y whili[?]".

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

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