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Garden and entrance to the Chapel in the Woods - Strawberry Hill

Maker

(artist)
1757-1827

Title

Garden and entrance to the Chapel in the Woods - Strawberry Hill

Date of Production

(circa) 1809

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolour on wove paper, incised for transfer; verso has remnants of black chalk preparation and graphite scribbles, both across the whole surface

Dimensions

Height: 14.2 cm
Width: 21.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3600

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

O. Alexander (?); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London),12 July 1944; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 1 August 1944 (£16); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 06/03/2010-04/07/2010

Mr Rowlandson's Richmond - Thomas Rowlandson's drawings of
Richmond upon Thames
, Museum of Richmond, Surrey, 04/11/1991-29/02/1992

Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill, Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, 20/09/1980-07/12/1980 ...More

English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/05/1977-01/06/1977

William Turner und die Landschaft seiner Zeit, Kunsthalle, Hamburg, 19/05/1976-18/07/1976

catalogue untraced, Forty Hall, Enfield, 1970 ...Less

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 43

Hayes, John, Rowlandson: Watercolours and Drawings, London, 1972
no. 143
ill. on p. 207

Jervis, S.S., 'Evocation of Walpole' in 'Country Life', 20 December 1973
p. 2117
ill. on p. 2117
see attached PDF ...More

William Turner und die Landschaft seiner Zeit, Kunsthalle, Hamburg, 1976
cat. no. 201
ill.

English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1977
cat. no. 16

Mr. Rowlandson's Richmond: Thomas Rowlandson's Drawings of Richmond-upon-Thames, Museum of Richmond, 1991
no. 28
ill.

Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven and V&A, London, 2009-2010
no. 29 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: upper right corner, pen and brown ink: "14/"; centre, brown ink: "Gothic Scene / Rowlandson"; lower left, graphite: "D/".

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

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