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Gathering at a port (recto)

Maker

Jan Baptist de Wael II (artist)
1639-1669

Title

Medium

pen and grey-brown ink, grey-brown wash (recto), graphite, pen and brown ink (verso), on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 17.7 cm
Width: 27.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3505

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

Edmund Turnor (1754-1829); by descent to Herbert Broke Turnor (1885-1979); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 2 February 1944, lot 102 (part of lot); where acquired by Colnaghi, London; where acquired by Sir Bruce S. Ingram, Chesham, Buckinghamshire (1877-1963), 7 February 1944; given by him to Sir Robert Witt (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 133

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right edge, brown ink, signed by the artist?: "J.D.W.". Verso: upper left corner, graphite: "424"; lower centre, graphite: "J de Wael / 1 //"; lower right, graphite, unclear: "Press" [? Same inscription on D.1952.RW.3369]; lower left edge, graphite, partly cut off: "J de Wael".

Collector's mark: Removed and now mounted with the drawing, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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