Landscape with view of a town
Maker
(artist)
1525-1589
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
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
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.
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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