Landscape in the Isle of Arran (recto)
Scottish landscape (verso)
Maker
(artist)
1751-1812
1751-1812
Title
Landscape in the Isle of Arran (recto)
Scottish landscape (verso)
Scottish landscape (verso)
Date of Production
1751 - 1812
Medium
graphite, pen and brown ink, grey and brown wash (recto), pen and brown ink, grey wash (verso), on laid paper
Dimensions
Height: 22.9 cm
Width: 31.9 cm
Width: 31.9 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3569
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
Walter T. Spencer (bookseller and dealer, 1863-1936); purchased from him by Leonard G. Duke, London (1890-1971), August 1933, for 15 shillings (his inventory number D892); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 2 June 1944; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 6 June 1944, for £5; Witt Bequest 1952
The above information supplied from Duke's inventory catalogue at The British Museum and Colnaghi's stockbook.
The above information supplied from Duke's inventory catalogue at The British Museum and Colnaghi's stockbook.
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 4
p. 4
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: centre: bunch of seven grapes with bulbous stem (not found in Heawood).
Collector's mark: Verso: lower left, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Recto: upper right, graphite: "Glen Sannot. I of Arran". Verso: upper right, pen and brown ink, artist's hand, cut away in trimming sheet: "on Loch [...] /18 J [...]".
Collector's mark: Verso: lower left, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Recto: upper right, graphite: "Glen Sannot. I of Arran". Verso: upper right, pen and brown ink, artist's hand, cut away in trimming sheet: "on Loch [...] /18 J [...]".
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