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Little Malvern church, Worcestershire (study for painting in the collection of Col. M.H. Grant)

Maker

(artist)
1747-1821

Title

Little Malvern church, Worcestershire (study for painting in the collection of Col. M.H. Grant)

Date of Production

(5 October) 1791

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, grey wash on wove paper, squared in graphite

Dimensions

Height: 17.3 cm
Width: 21.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.442

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

F.R. Meatyard (London, active 1912-1964); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (3 shillings); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Joseph Farington: watercolour and drawings, Bolton Museum and Art Gallery; Hastings Museum and Art Gallery; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 16/07/1977-03/12/1977

Literature

Joseph Farington: watercolour and drawings, Bolton Museum and Art Gallery; Hastings Museum and Art Gallery; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1977
cat. no. 69
no. 69
Illus. p. 107

Herrmann, Luke, British landscape painting of the eighteenth century, London: Faber & Faber, 1973
p. 124

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 18

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: colour notes throughout the drawing by the artist in graphite: upper centre: “rich brown yellow / slates”; right centre: “filled with […]”; left centre: “with mortar stops / up”; lower centre: “all mortar stained”; lower right edge: “Tower most grey buff colour / + graver”; lower right corner, dated: “Oct. 5-91”. Verso: centre, graphite, Witt number: “442”.

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

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