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Landscape with tree and meadow - Thorness Bay

Maker

(artist)
1757-1827

Title

Date of Production

(after) 1794

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink, watercolour on wove paper, laid down on a historic support

Dimensions

Height: 13.6 cm
Width: 23.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3901

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

Julian G. Lousada, London (ca. 1874-1945); his sale, Christie's (London), 7 March 1947, lot 46; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (£21); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 43

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, upper right, cut off by edge: unclear, but seems to read "1794 / J WHATM[...]".

Collector's mark: Support (historic), Recto: lower left, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Recto: upper right edge, graphite: "Thorness Bay". Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower right, graphite, partly erased: "Thomas Rowlandson / 1756-1827 / [...] Bay".

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