Garden and entrance to the Chapel in the Woods - Strawberry Hill
Maker
(artist)
1757-1827
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
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
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
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).
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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