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Coast scene, with boat in the foreground - near Dover (?)

Maker

(artist)
1775-1851

Title

Coast scene, with boat in the foreground - near Dover (?)

Date of Production

(circa) 1794

Medium

graphite, grey and blue wash on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 21.9 cm
Width: 30.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4476

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

Mrs Reginald Smith; her sale, Sotheby's (London), 24 January 1951, lot 144; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

J.M.W. Turner, 'That Greatest of Landscape Painters' -
Watercolours from London Museums
, Tulsa, USA, 08/02/1998-12/04/1998

English Landscape Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/01/1965-01/05/1965

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 53

English Landscape Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965
cat. no. 40

J.M.W. Turner, "that greatest of landscape painters": watercolors from London museums, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1998
no. 2
no. 2 ...More

J.M.W. Turner, 'That Greatest of Landscape Painters' - Watercolours from London Museums, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1998 ...Less

Inscriptions

Inscription: 19

Inscription: 2nd

Inscription: Girtin

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