Coast scene with cavalry embarking
Maker
(artist)
1757-1827
1757-1827
Title
Coast scene with cavalry embarking
Date of Production
1757 - 1827
Medium
graphite, pen and grey and brown ink, watercolour on wove paper, laid down on the artist's support (as the wash overlaps the support)
Dimensions
Height: 12.2 cm
Width: 19.2 cm
Width: 19.2 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3856
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
Fine Art Society (London); purchased 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
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
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 43
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. 43
p. 43
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. 43
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: lower centre edge, graphite: "Embarkation of Cavalry".
Collector's mark: Support (historic), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: lower centre edge, graphite: "Embarkation of Cavalry".
Collector's mark: Support (historic), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
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