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Roman ruin on the Palatine

Maker

(artist)
1705-1772

Title

Roman ruin on the Palatine

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

black and white chalk on brown laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 26 cm
Width: 41.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3929

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

Thomas Hudson, London (1701-1779), L.2432; possibly his estate sale, Langford (Covent Garden), 15-27 March 1779, second night, lot 15 (fifteen [drawings] by Blanchet &c.); Efim Schapiro, London (1899-1977); given by him to Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Richard Wilson RA (1714-1782) and the Transformation of European landscape painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 06/03/2014-01/06/2014; National Museum Wales, Cardiff, 05/07/2014-29/10/2014

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 04/07/1991-06/10/1991

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 06/01/1968-03/03/1968 ...More

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

Il Settecento a Roma, Palazzo delle Espozioni, Rome, 19/03/1959-31/05/1959

Eighteenth-century Italy and the Grand Tour, Norwich Castle Museum, 23/05/1958-20/07/1958

Landscape in French Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1949-1950 ...Less

Literature

Richard Wilson and the transformation of European landscape painting, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 6 Mar. - 1 June 2014; and Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff, 5 Jul. - 26 Oct. 2014 Postle, Martin 2014
cat. no. 12
no. 12 on p. 214 and fig. 59 on p. 65

French Drawings: XVI-XIX Centuries, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1991
no. 1, p. 10
ill. on p. 11

France in the eighteenth century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1967-1968
cat. no. 23 ...More

Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 49

Il Settecento a Roma, Palazzo delle Espozioni, Rome, 1959
cat. no. 84

Eighteenth-century Italy and the Grand Tour, Norwich Castle Museum, 1958
cat. no. 10
no. 10

Brinsley Ford, The drawings of Richard Wilson, London 1951
p. 25n3 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: "D" topped by a small crown with a fleur-de-lis? (Unclear due to colour of paper, not found in Heawood or Piccard).

Inscription: Recto: lower right, brown ink, signed by the artist: "L.G. Blanchet / d'apres Nature //". Verso: upper left, graphite, unclear: "IL [?"; lower right, graphite: "1705-1772"; right lower edge, graphite: "#5"; lower right corner, graphite: "68".

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right, stamped in black ink: Thomas Hudson (L.2432). Verso: lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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