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Plant study - dock (?)

Maker

(artist)
1784-1849

Title

Plant study - dock (?)

Date of Production

1812 - 1820

Medium

graphite and watercolour on wove paper, laid down on a card support

Dimensions

Height: 21.6 cm
Width: 14.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3660

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

the artist's widow, Harriet De Wint; by descent to her granddaughter Miss Harriet Helen Tatlock (d. 1922); bequeathed to Miss Muriel Bostock (d. 1942), 1922; Sir Michael Sadler (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. 59

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to support; none evident in raking light.

Inscription: 38

Inscription: #5 [or 8]

Inscription: 3821 / The Dock //

Inscription: Dock plant

Inscription: 239 / Ra // [?]

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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