View of Benares, India
Maker
(artist)
1769-1837
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
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
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).
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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