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Wapping Stairs, the Thames

Maker

(artist)
1757-1827

Title

Wapping Stairs, the Thames

Date of Production

(circa) 1790 - 1795

Medium

graphite, pen and grey and black ink, watercolour on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 22.7 cm
Width: 31.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4467

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

Spink & Son (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d., for £20; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Hayes, John, Rowlandson: Watercolours and Drawings, London, 1972
no. 88
ill. on p. 152

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 43

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

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

Inscription: Verso: upper left, graphite, erased, 3 lines long but mostly illegible: "31v[...]"; upper left, graphite, erased: "Rowlandson"; lower centre, graphite, Rowlandson’s life dates, erased: "1756-1827"; lower left edge, graphite: "12 1/4 x 8v1". Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower right, graphite: "Thomas Rowlandson / 1756-1827 / Wapping stairs.".

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