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Saint Bathan's monastery, Berwickshire

Maker

(artist)
1730-1791

Title

Saint Bathan's monastery, Berwickshire

Date of Production

1789 - 1791

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink, grey wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 22.4 cm
Width: 30.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4129

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

James Gibson Craig (1799-1886?); 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. 24

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: crowned shield containing posthorn over letters "GR" (image on Portfolio, a close though not exact match to Heawood 2756 and 2758 - dated 1789 and 1800 respectively).

Inscription: Recto: lower centre, brown ink: "From Capt. Hatton's / St. Bothans Monasy. near Dunse Berwickshire near the Parish Kirk No. 50 . Reduced". Verso: centre, brown ink: "St. Bothans Monast. near Dunse / Berwhshire"; lower centre, graphite: "St Bothans Monastery Dunse / Berwickshire Now the Parish Kirk"; lower left, graphite: "Capt. F Grose"; lower right, brown ink: "SE"; lower right, graphite: "#9".

Label: Strip of paper formerly affixed to mount: Recto: 124 / Bought by me from Common Bookseller Princes Street / Captain F. Grose 1731-1791 / from James Gibson Craig Collection //".

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

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