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Windmill by the side of the water, and a sailing boat on the sea (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1784-1849

Title

Date of Production

1815 - 1820

Medium

graphite and watercolour (recto), watercolour (verso) on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 23.9 cm
Width: 10.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4317

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

Label Text

This sheet contains not one landscape but two separate studies of wind-driven objects; note that there are two horizons and that the sails of the windmill and of the boat are facing in opposite directions. There was an enormous increase in paintings and drawings of windmills at the beginning of the nineteenth century; their inclusion in a landscape drew attention to the activity of the air, to the wind and the sky and the relatively new concept of nature as constantly changing. The windmill shown here is probably Randall's mill on the Thames at Nine Elms - alongside it are the two kilns of a cement factory.

Provenance

Thomas Agnew & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

The Four Elements, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1996

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 03/09/1986-30/11/1986; The Drawing Center, New York, 08/04/1986-26/07/1986

Peter De Wint, 1784-1849: A Bicentenary Exhibition, Stoke-on-Trent City Museum and Art Gallery, 24/11/1984-12/01/1985 ...More

English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/06/1979-01/09/1979

English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/05/1977-01/06/1977

English Landscape Drawings [catalogue not found], Rye Art Gallery, England, 1971 ...Less

Literature

The Northern Landscape. Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, The Drawing Center, New York; Courtauld Institute Galleries, 1986
no. 119
ill. on p. 261

The Northern Landscape: Flemish, Dutch and British Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1986
cat. no. 119
ill. on p. 261

Peter DeWint: 1784-1849 A Bicentenary Exhibition, City Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent; Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Hull and Bankside Gallery, London, 1984-1985
no. 36 ...More

Smith, Hammond, Peter de Wint 1784-1849, London, 1982
pl. II

English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1979
cat. no. 61

English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1977
cat. no. 47

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 59 ...Less

Inscriptions

Inscription: #4 / 83 6059 //

Inscription: 47_83_

Inscription: 6059 / 2 as 1

Inscription: Sir Rbt Witt / Sold / SOLD UNFRAMED / CAT. 50. //

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

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