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Tree

Maker

(artist)
1776-1837

Title

Tree

Date of Production

(circa) 1811

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink, grey wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 19.1 cm
Width: 15.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3715

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

Label Text

A fervent advocate of drawing from nature, Constable likely found and studied his subject in the environs of his native Suffolk. He applied the wash with a dry brush, allowing the grain of the paper to show through and add texture to the foliage. The strip of pale wash at the lower edge was added later, to anchor the tree in a landscape, but the sheet remains essentially a portrait of an individual tree.

Provenance

Leggatt Bros (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Drawings Gallery Display - Regarding Trees, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 18/06/2016-25/09/2016

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 13

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: lower right, graphite: "#1".

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

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