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Wooded landscape with cottages

Maker

(artist)
1727-1788

Title

Wooded landscape with cottages

Date of Production

(circa) 1780 - 1785

Medium

black and white chalk with stumping on greenish-brown laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 15.5 cm
Width: 20.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4006

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

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Provenance

artist's studio sale, Christie's (London), 11 May 1799, lot 82, 84 or 88 as part of a sketchbook; purchased there by George Hibbert, London (1757-1837); by descent to Arthur Henry Holland-Hibbert (1855-1935); his sale, Christie's (London), 30 June 1913, lot 13 or 23; purchased there by Leggatt Bros (London) (if lot 13) or by Garland (if lot 23); Fine Art Society (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (on former mount, now missing) n.d. (£35); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

An exhibition of drawings by Thomas Gainsborough, Sand Hill, Aldeburgh, 1949

Literature

Hayes, John, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London 1970
no. 538 and p. 61
pl. 290

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 22

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: verso, upper centre edge: a crown above letters "GR".

Inscription: Verso: centre, brown ink, same hand on D.1952.RW.4110: "No. 20".

Collector's mark: Mount (removed, now missing, attested to in Hayes 1970), Verso: lower left, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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