Landscape overlooking Chesil Beach
Maker
(artist)
1776-1837
1776-1837
Title
Landscape overlooking Chesil Beach
Date of Production
1800 - 1899
Medium
graphite, watercolour and bodycolour on wove paper
Dimensions
Height: 7.9 cm
Width: 9 cm
Width: 9 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3757
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
Leggatt Bros (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. 13
p. 13
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Recto: lower margin, brown ink, does not match Constable's hand: "Chesill Beach of 26[?] near Abbotsbury_looking towards Portland.". Verso: centre, graphite: "Constable".
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Recto: lower margin, brown ink, does not match Constable's hand: "Chesill Beach of 26[?] near Abbotsbury_looking towards Portland.". Verso: centre, graphite: "Constable".
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