Wooded landscape with cottages
Maker
(artist)
1727-1788
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
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
Keywords
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
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).
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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