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Landscape with trees - Windsor Park (?)

Maker

(artist)
1703-1772

Title

Landscape with trees - Windsor Park (?)

Date of Production

1703 - 1772

Medium

graphite, grey wash and watercolour on laid paper with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 22.6 cm
Width: 31.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4488

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



Notes

Taverner’s experimental use of watercolour was influenced by the structural composition of Italian and Dutch oil paintings. He also worked for the ecclesiastical Arches Court in London, allowing him to earn a living separate to his artistic production.

Provenance

Leonard G. Duke, London (1890-1971); Max de Beer (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/06/1979-01/09/1979

English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/05/1977-01/06/1977

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

Englische Aquarelle, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, and China, 1963-64 ...Less

Literature

English Landscape Drawings and Watercolours, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1979
cat. no. 3

English Landscape Drawing and Watercolours, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1977
cat. no. 1

English Landscape Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965
cat. no. 3 ...More

Exhibition of British water-colour painting during three centuries, China, 1963
no. 5

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 1963-64, Englische Aquarelle
unpag.

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 50 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: Strasburg bend and lily (closest match is Heawood 71, though Heawood is smaller - Amsterdam 1718-21).

Inscription: Verso: upper right, graphite, underlined: “View / near / Windsor”. Mount (removed, recorded in file), Verso: graphite, L.G. Duke's hand: “D 1002/ William Taverner 1703-1772 / LGD”.

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