Coastal landscape, with a view of antique monuments
Maker
(artist)
1720-1791
1720-1791
Title
Coastal landscape, with a view of antique monuments
Date of Production
1776
Medium
graphite, pen and brown ink, grey and brown wash, with scratching out on laid paper, framed with double ink lines, laid down on a Witt paper support
Dimensions
Height: 34.4 cm
Width: 48.4 cm
Width: 48.4 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.4372
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
given by the artist to James Harris (1709-1780), August 1776 (see inscription mounted with drawing); by descent to James Harris, 3rd Earl of Malmesbury (Viscount Fitzharris) (1807-1889); his estate sale, Christie's (London), 21 April 1950, lot 72 (£190); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b); Witt Bequest 1952
Exhibition History
Landscape Portrait. Then and Now, Hestercombe Gallery, Somerset, 13/03/2021-25/07/2021
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 4
p. 4
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: centre, crowned fleur-de-lis in a shield.
Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink, signed by the artist: “CW Bampfylde delin. et inv.” On a separate strip of paper mounted above the drawing, brown ink, hand of former owner James Harris: “This Beautiful Drawing was given to me James Harris by it's [sic] Inventor and author / M. Copplestone Warre Bampfylde of Hestorcomb near Taunton in August 1776. Before I received / this valuable Present, Mr. Bampfylde had painted after it a fine Picture, which he gave to Mr. Hoare, and which is now at Stourhead.". Witt’s paper mount (historic), Recto: left centre margin, graphite: “T”; lower left corner, graphite, Witt number: “4372”; lower centre margin, graphite: “72”; lower right, graphite: arrow pointing at signature on drawing
Collector's mark: Witt’s paper mount (historic), Recto: lower left, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink, signed by the artist: “CW Bampfylde delin. et inv.” On a separate strip of paper mounted above the drawing, brown ink, hand of former owner James Harris: “This Beautiful Drawing was given to me James Harris by it's [sic] Inventor and author / M. Copplestone Warre Bampfylde of Hestorcomb near Taunton in August 1776. Before I received / this valuable Present, Mr. Bampfylde had painted after it a fine Picture, which he gave to Mr. Hoare, and which is now at Stourhead.". Witt’s paper mount (historic), Recto: left centre margin, graphite: “T”; lower left corner, graphite, Witt number: “4372”; lower centre margin, graphite: “72”; lower right, graphite: arrow pointing at signature on drawing
Collector's mark: Witt’s paper mount (historic), Recto: lower left, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
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