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View of estuary with figures standing on a promontory beside a building emitting smoke from its chimney

Maker

(artist)
1753-1839

Title

View of estuary with figures standing on a promontory beside a building emitting smoke from its chimney

Date of Production

1753 - 1839

Medium

graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 16.3 cm
Width: 27.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3584

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

Dr Carl Robert Rudolf, London (1884-1974); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 4 October 1943; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 20 June 1944, for £4; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 6

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: upper right, graphite: "#3"; lower left, graphite: "SIR WILLIAM BEECHEY".

Collector's mark: none.

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