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Park landscape

Maker

(artist)
1684-1734

Title

Park landscape

Date of Production

1700 - 1734

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, laid down on a historic mount, the upper right edge made up

Dimensions

Height: 18 cm
Width: 31.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4127

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

Archdeacon F.H.D. Smythe; given by him to Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 132

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: large double circle with letters in the border; a strong vertical rod at centre leads me to think it is a Vryheyt mark, though is very unclear. Mount (historic), Verso: lower right edge, "J WHATMAN" (only visible in raking light, not transmitted).

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

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: lower left corner, graphite, underneath L.2228b: "#14"; lower right edge, graphite: "Tillemans". Mount (historic), Verso: centre, graphite: "Peter Tillemans"; lower right, graphite, faded and mostly illegible: "[...] 7 [...] lol".

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