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Landscape with figures - Landguard Fort, Essex

Maker

(artist)
1757-1823

Title

Landscape with figures - Landguard Fort, Essex

Date of Production

(or 1797?) 1799

Medium

graphite, watercolour and bodycolour on card, with graphite and black ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 13 cm
Width: 15.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4225.2

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

Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 52

Inscriptions

Recto: lower right, black ink, signed with initials and dated, the last 2 numbers in brown ink: "C.T. 1799"; lower right, graphite, erased: "Tomkins". Verso: upper centre edge, black ink: "Landguard Fort- Essex Coast / CT/97."; left centre, graphite: "EDS4"; right centre, graphite: "J [?] C. Tomkins"; lower left, graphite: "H/-".

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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