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Broadstairs Castle

Maker

(artist)
1776-1837

Title

Broadstairs Castle

Date of Production

(27 August) 1806

Medium

graphite and watercolour on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 17.7 cm
Width: 26 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3758

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

Exhibition History

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

Two hundred years of British painting, Public Library and Art Gallery, Huddersfield, 16/05/1946-13/07/1946

Literature

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

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. 7

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: lower right corner, cut off: "[...]01 / [...]TMAN" (as in "1801 / J WHATMAN").

Inscription: Verso: upper right, brown ink, possibly located and dated in artist's hand: "Broad Stairs 27 Augt. 1806."; centre, graphite: "J. Constable".

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

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