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Landscape with view of a town

Maker

(artist)
1525-1589

Title

Landscape with view of a town

Date of Production

1500 - 1599

Medium

traces of graphite, pen and brown ink (recto), pen and brown ink (verso), on buff laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 14.9 cm
Width: 23.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3959

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

Robert Henri Randall Davies, London (1866-1946); his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 28 April 1948, lot 20; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) (£20); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 124

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink, signed by the artist?: "H. Van Cleef". Verso: upper left, graphite: "Henry van Cleef / Born at Antwerp / Died 1589 //"; lower right edge, graphite: "9/6". Support (removed, now in file): graphite: “Henry van Cleef / Born at Antwerp / Died 1589 //”; graphite, Colnaghi number & price: “A 14189 / £10 //”; brown ink; “438 / LV8P //”; graphite: “Fajan 336 / Laurence Barnet Phillips / b 1842 //”.

Collector's mark: none.

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