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Red-throated diver

Maker

(artist)
1680-1744

Title

Red-throated diver

Date of Production

1738

Medium

watercolour and bodycolour on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 37.6 cm
Width: 53.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4135

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

Squire Gallery (London); purchased there by 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. 10

Taylor, Basil, Animal Painting in England from Barlow to Landseer, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1955.
pl. 12

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: crowned fleur-de-lis in a shield.

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, brown ink, signed and dated by the artist: "Charl. Collins. Cfect. 1738.". Verso: left centre edge, brown ink: “Log”; lower right corner, graphite: “C. Collins / 5633 / Red-throated Diver in water plunge / #2 / Open / Large”.

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

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