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Coast scene with cavalry embarking

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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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

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

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).

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