Landscape with figures - Landguard Fort, Essex
Maker
(artist)
1757-1823
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
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
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)
Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)
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