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Naval post with three soldiers

Maker

(artist)
1725-1809

Title

Naval post with three soldiers

Date of Production

1725 - 1809

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink and watercolour on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.1 cm
Width: 27 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4005

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

Fine Art Society (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

1776: the British story of the American Revolution, National Maritime Museum, London, 14/04/1976-02/10/1976

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, American Federation of the Arts, Washington, D.C. and nine cities in the USA, 1951

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949 - 1950

Literature

1776: the British story of the American Revolution, National Maritime Museum, London, 14 April - 2 October 1976, 1976

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 45

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949-50
no. 48

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: lower centre edge, fragment: lower half of a Strasburg bend above letters "GR" [no exact match found but see Heawood 103 (1777), 105 (1781?), 107 (1768), 108 (1788) and 110 (London 1789)].

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink, signed?: "P. Sandby RA".

Collector's mark: none.

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