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Batenburg Castle

Maker

Egidius Beukelaar (artist)
1706-1757

Title

Batenburg Castle

Date of Production

1725-1757

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, with black ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 13.2 cm
Width: 22.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4150

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

Hope Collection (?); J.H.J. Mellaert (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Bakker B. a.o., "De verzameling Van Eeghen: Amsterdamse tekeningen 1600-1950"

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 123

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: lower centre edge: fragment of a shape, above two (three?) crosses above letters “GW” or “CW”.

Inscription: Verso: lower centre, graphite: “E Beukelaer”; lower left corner, graphite: “E. Beukelaer / Batenburg”. Mount (removed, in portfolios from P&D): Recto: lower centre, brown ink: “Batenburg Castle”; lower left, brown ink: “E. Beuckelaer, a Flemish Artist. From the Hope Collection.”; lower right corner, graphite: “#4”; lower right corner, brown ink: "13"

Collector's mark: Mount (removed, in portfolio from P&D), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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