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Landscape, looking towards Lancaster

Maker

(artist)
1729-1816

Title

Landscape, looking towards Lancaster

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink, grey wash, blue watercolour on laid paper, framed in grey ink with a sizable margin

Dimensions

Height: 36.5 cm
Width: 51.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3699

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

David McAdam, first Viscount Eccles (1904-1999); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 22 February 1945; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 9 March 1945 (£8); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/06/1979-01/09/1979

Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours from the Spooner and Witt Collections, Australia, New Zealand, 1976-78

English Landscape Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/01/1965-01/05/1965 ...More

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, American Federation of the Arts, Washington, D.C. and nine cities in the USA, 1951

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949 - 1950

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948 ...Less

Literature

English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1979
cat. no. 35

Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours from the Spooner and Witt Collections, Australia, New Zealand, 1976 - 1978
cat. no. 25

English Landscape Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965
cat. no. 37 ...More

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 17

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949-50
no. 19

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 17 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: crowned shield containing fleur-de-lis above letters "GR".

Inscription: Recto: lower centre margin, first word in blue ink, the rest in grey: "Lancaster from Halton".

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

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