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Landscape in the Isle of Arran (recto)
Scottish landscape (verso)

Maker

(artist)
1751-1812

Title

Landscape in the Isle of Arran (recto)
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

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.

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
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 [...]".

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