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Imaginary coast scene, with figures

Maker

(artist)
1757-1827

Title

Imaginary coast scene, with figures

Date of Production

1757 - 1827

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolour on feigned card mount with pre-printed (etching and aquatint) borders

Dimensions

Height: 34 cm
Width: 42 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3605

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

O. Alexander (?); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 25 August 1944; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 25 September 1944 (£35); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

?, New Zealand, 1975

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London; York City Art Gallery; Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953

Literature

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

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London, York City Art Gallery and Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953
cat. no. 35

Carlisle, Anne, Les dessins anglais au XIXe siecle, Paris, Hyperion, 1950
ill. ...More

Lavauden, Therese, 'La Mer et la Genie Anglais' in 'Formes et Couleurs', Autumn 1947
ill.
in file ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner of margin, graphite: "134"; lower left edge of margin, graphite, erased and mostly illegible: "O[...] D[...]"; lower right edge of margin, graphite, erased: "* 26 7/6". Verso: lower left, graphite, hard to read: "suvo" [?]. Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower left, graphite: "Reproduced in "Formes et Couleurs" 1947 Autumn Number. / " " des dessins anglais aux XIX siecle.' Edition Hyperion 1951. p. 64 'Bateaux et g[erased word]!'"; lower right, graphite: "Thomas Rowlandson / 1756-1827 / on one of Rowlandson's own mounts / (feigned mount. WB. '89).".

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

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