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Street scene in Paris

Maker

(artist)
1757-1827

Title

Street scene in Paris

Date of Production

1772 - 1774 or 1790?

Medium

graphite, pen and brown and grey ink, brown and grey wash on wove paper, laid down on a historic card support

Dimensions

Height: 21 cm
Width: 27 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3611

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

Lord Clive Wigram (1873-1960); purchased from him by Fine Art Society (London), n.d.; purchased there by Colnaghi (London), 15 September 1944; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 9 October 1944, for £23; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Huit siecles de Vie Britannique à Paris, Musée Galliéra, Paris, 1948

Literature

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

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper right (within drawing), pen and grey ink: "HOTEL DE / MONTMORENCY". Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower left, graphite: "Exhibited Paris. Musee Galleries. 1948."; lower right, graphite: "Thomas Rowlandson / 1756-1827 / Street scene in Paris / c. 1790".

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

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