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Adoration of the Shepherds

Maker

Willem Joseph Laquy (artist)
1738-1798

Title

Adoration of the Shepherds

Date of Production

(c.) 1793

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown wash, watercolour and touches of bodycolour on paper, with some gum arabic, laid down on a cardboard support

Dimensions

Height: 53.4 cm
Width: 42 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4385

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

anonymous sale, Sotheby's (London), 26 April 1950, lot 36; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b; Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre (only visible in raking light due to cardboard support): "J HONIG / & / ZOONEN" (a little larger than Heawood 3344- Berne 1787).

Inscription: Recto: lower centre within the drawing on a rock, brown ink: “Chevalier / Van d.r Werff” and signed at lower right on another rock: “W Josep / Laquy / […]9[…]”. Cardboard support, Recto: lower centre margin, graphite, with an arrow pointing to the inscription on the drawing: “Chevalier / Van d.r Werff”; lower right corner, graphite, with an arrow pointing to the inscription on the drawing: “W. Joseph Laquy / ? 93”.

Collector's mark: Cardboard support (historic), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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