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Bernkastel on the Mosel

Maker

(artist)
1812-1908

Title

Bernkastel on the Mosel

Date of Production

1844

Medium

graphite, watercolour and bodycolour on wove paper, laid down on card

Dimensions

Height: 50.8 cm
Width: 33.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4297

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

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Provenance

Sotheby's (London), n.d., lot 12; purchased there by E. Kersley, London (active 1930-1960); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 27 June 1947; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 22 December 1949 (£23); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Reynolds, Jan, William Callow R.W.S., London / B T Batsford Ltd. 1980
p. 170
Witt no. 4297

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 9

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none visible, as is laid down.

Inscription: Recto: lower left, brown watercolour, signed by the artist: “Wm Callow”; below that, in graphite, also in artist’s hand, underlined: “Bemcastel / Moselle Oct.15.44.”. Card support, Verso: lower centre edge, graphite, Colnaghi number: “A.14596”

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

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