Rocky landscape
Maker
(artist)
1613-1686
1613-1686
Title
Rocky landscape
Date of Production
1630 - 1686
Medium
black chalk and grey wash on laid paper
Dimensions
Height: 20.5 cm
Width: 30.6 cm
Width: 30.6 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3930
Mode of Acquisition
Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Provenance
Heinrich Wilhelm Campe, Leipzig (1770-1862); by descent to Ernst H. Ehlers, Göttingen (1835-1925); Kunsthandel C.G. Boerner, Leipzig, 9 May 1930, lot 10; Julius Hess, Bern (1900-1940); his estate sale, Gutekunst & Klipstein, Bern, 1-2 December 1941, lot 325; J.H.J. Mellaert (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (150 shillings); Witt Bequest 1952
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 123
p. 123
Inscriptions
Watermark: centre: crowned shield containing fleur-de-lis over letters “I” and “R” (no match in Heawood or Churchill).
Collector's mark: Verso: lower right, on remnant of a former backing sheet, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Verso: centre, graphite: “17”; lower centre, graphite: “2”; lower right, graphite, underlined: “4.”; lower right, graphite: “#4”.
Collector's mark: Verso: lower right, on remnant of a former backing sheet, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Verso: centre, graphite: “17”; lower centre, graphite: “2”; lower right, graphite, underlined: “4.”; lower right, graphite: “#4”.
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