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Tree stump

Maker

(artist)
1717-1786

Title

Tree stump

Date of Production

1737 - 1786

Medium

graphite and grey wash on brown-prepared laid paper, laid down on mount

Dimensions

Height: 22.1 cm
Width: 15.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3907

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

Benjamin Booth (1732-1807), L.277a (mount verso, lower left); by descent to Marianne Ford, née Booth (1767-1849); by descent to Richard Ford (1796-1858); John Ford; his sale, Sotheby's (London), 19 March 1947, lot 60; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (£24); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962

Literature

Alexander and John Cozens, the poetry of landscapes, V&A; Art Gallery of Ontario, 1986-87 New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986
p. 48
fig. 60 on p. 49

Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 2

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 14

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: none in the drawing. Mount is composed of two sheets laid down, with two watermarks: from the Recto, right centre edge, fragment: lower half of a Strasburg lily above “G R”; from the Verso, left centre edge, fragment: lower half of a name, looks like “L. DMPADs & [...]NE [?]" (not found in Churchill or Heawood).

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: lower left, grey wash: “Alexr. Cozens”. Mount (historic), Verso: lower left, brown ink, L.277a: “Bbooth”; lower left corner, graphite: “41”.

Collector's mark: Mount (historic), Recto: lower left, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b). Mount (historic), Verso: lower left, written in brown ink: Benjamin Booth (L.277a).

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