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Landscape overlooking Chesil Beach

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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".

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