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Oak tree

Maker

(artist)
1789-1862

Title

Oak tree

Medium

graphite and brown wash on wove paper, laid down on a historic mount, the margins of which (as well as the edges of the drawing) are now covered in varnish and scraps of paper from the removal of a former mount cover

Dimensions

Height: 26.9 cm
Width: 37.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3658

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

Sir Michael Sadler, Oxford (1861-1943); Thomas Agnew & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 53

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check as is laid down; none evident in raking light.

Inscription: An old oak in the High Lodge Blenheim P.

Inscription: 1443

Inscription: no 4 / Wm Turner / Blenheim oak //

Inscription: 3806

Inscription: [...]13 [?]

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