Fleet at anchor
Maker
Dominic Serres (artist)
1722-1793
1722-1793
Title
Fleet at anchor
Date of Production
1792
Medium
graphite, pen and grey ink, watercolour on laid paper, laid down on artist’s washline mount (as signed and dated on the mount)
Dimensions
Height: 21.2 cm
Width: 29 cm
Width: 29 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3803
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
A.T. Loyd (d. 1945); Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (verso, lower left); 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
Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948 ...More
catalogue untraced, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1924 ...Less
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
Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948 ...More
catalogue untraced, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1924 ...Less
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 45
William, Iolo A., Early English Watercolours, London: The Connoisseur, 1952
p. 199
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. 49 ...More
Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 72 ...Less
p. 45
William, Iolo A., Early English Watercolours, London: The Connoisseur, 1952
p. 199
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. 49 ...More
Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 72 ...Less
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermarks: centre: “J WHATMAN”. Artist's Mount: centre: Strasburg lily above cursive “W” (a Whatman mark).
Inscription: Artist's Mount (historic), Recto: lower left, black ink: signed with initials and dated: "D. S. 1792". Artist's Mount (historic), Verso: upper centre, brown ink: "No. 34"; upper centre, graphite: "Serres"; centre, graphite, underlined: "22x16". Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower left, graphite: "Exhibited B.FA. Club 1924/5 / " Arts Council 1948/9 / " British Council in Canada 1949/50 / " American Federation of Arts, Washington, in 9 cities in the U.S.A. 1951"; lower right, graphite: "Dominic Serres the elder / British 1722-1793 / Signed D.S. 1792 / A.T. Loyd Coll.".
Collector's mark: Support (historic), Verso: lower left, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Artist's Mount (historic), Recto: lower left, black ink: signed with initials and dated: "D. S. 1792". Artist's Mount (historic), Verso: upper centre, brown ink: "No. 34"; upper centre, graphite: "Serres"; centre, graphite, underlined: "22x16". Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower left, graphite: "Exhibited B.FA. Club 1924/5 / " Arts Council 1948/9 / " British Council in Canada 1949/50 / " American Federation of Arts, Washington, in 9 cities in the U.S.A. 1951"; lower right, graphite: "Dominic Serres the elder / British 1722-1793 / Signed D.S. 1792 / A.T. Loyd Coll.".
Collector's mark: Support (historic), Verso: lower left, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
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