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Study of trees at Touques

Maker

(artist)
1802-1828

Title

Study of trees at Touques

Date of Production

(circa) 1821

Medium

graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 15.3 cm
Width: 10.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3799

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

Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

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

Literature

Noon, Patrick, Richard Parkes Bonington: The Complete Drawings, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011.
no. 24
ill.

Exhibition of Drawings and Watercolours from the Spooner and Witt Collections, Australia, New Zealand, 1976 - 1978
cat. no. 37

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 6

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, upper left corner, fragment: a shell.

Inscription: Recto: upper left, graphite: "48", this crossed out in brown ink and written next to it is "137"; upper right, graphite: "Tocques [sic]". Mount (removed, now in file), Recto: lower right edge, brown ink, cut off: "Bonnington. / [...]".

Collector's mark: Mount (removed, now in the file), Recto: left lower edge, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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