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Fleet at anchor

Maker

Dominic Serres (artist)
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

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

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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

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

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).

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