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View of Benares, India

Maker

(artist)
1769-1837

Title

View of Benares, India

Date of Production

(circa) 1789 - 1791

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolour and bodycolour with scratching out on card, laid down on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 10.6 cm
Width: 15.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4087.2

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




dhows

Provenance

Archdeacon Francis Henry Dumville Smythe (1873-1966); given by him to Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Englische Aquarelle, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, and China, 1963-64

Literature

Exhibition of British water-colour painting during three centuries, China, 1963
no. 45b

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 1963-64, Englische Aquarelle
unpag.

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 16

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check as is laid down and card is too thick.

Inscription: Mount, Recto: upper right, graphite: "12 ,"; lower centre, graphite: "The Bernar Pagoda Benares"; lower right, graphite, Witt number: "4087 B"; lower right, graphite: "Wm Daniell / 1769 – 1837"; lower right, graphite: "Twin" [same inscribed on D.1952.RW.4087.1].

Collector's mark: Mount, Recto: lower left, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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