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View of Kent

Maker

(artist)
1627-1628

Title

View of Kent

Date of Production

1661

Medium

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

Dimensions

Height: 17.8 cm
Width: 28.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4207

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

Dr August Sträter, Aix-la-Chapelle (1810-1897), L.787; Bernard Houthakker (Amsterdam); purchased from him by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£20); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 1: Landscape, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1972 (Jan.-Mar.)

Landscapes in the Making: Dutch & Flemish 16-17th Century Drawings from the Courtauld Gallery, Tobu Museum of Arts, Tokyo, 03/11/2000-24/12/2000; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka, 02/02/2001-11/03/2001; Koriyama City Museum of Art, Koriyama, 17/03/2001-15/04/2001

The Artist's View of Canterbury, Royal Museum, Canterbury, 06/04/1985-04/05/1985

Literature

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 1: Landscape, Courtauld Gallery, London, January - March 1972
cat. no. 56

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: upper centre edge, brown ink: “Bredge / Getekent int Dorp, zo als men van Dovers naar Canterbury / of Cantel-bergh reydt. Heeft deze Plaats de naam, van deze brugh / die over het af loopende Reviertje leyt. Leyt tussen 2 afdaalende / = Wegen in een Dall.”; centre, graphite, underlined: “1010.”; right centre, graphite: “ag-“; lower left, graphite: “W. Schellincks / Samml. Strater //”; lower right, graphite, the number circled: “2261 ag.”; lower right corner, graphite: “#2”.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b); lower centre edge, stamped incompletely in black ink: Dr August Sträter (L.787).

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