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Fleet at anchor

Maker

(artist)
1751-1779

Title

Fleet at anchor

Date of Production

1776

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, grey wash on laid paper, with grey ink framing lines only at right and lower edges

Dimensions

Height: 25.4 cm
Width: 37.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3928

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

Efim Schapiro, London (1899-1977); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Verso, centre: "D&C BLAUW" (per Churchill, Dutch paper-maker active 1733-1827).

Inscription: Recto: within drawing, on plank of wood at lower left, brown ink, signed and dated by the artist but so faint is almost illegible: "Kobell invt 1776". Verso: centre, graphite: "113."; lower left, brown ink, underlined: "3"; lower centre, graphite, partly erased: "N R[...] / H. Kobell invt. 1776 / Dutch //"; lower right, graphite: "# 4"; lower right corner, graphite: "1".

Collector's mark: Verso: lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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