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View of Hyderabad, southern India

Maker

(artist)
1781-1850

Title

View of Hyderabad, southern India

Medium

graphite, watercolour with some gum arabic, bodycolour, scratching out on wove paper, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 21.8 cm
Width: 28.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4510

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

Philip Henry, by September 1950?; Spink & Son (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 56

Inscriptions

Inscription: Hyderabad n. 58

Inscription: William Westall ARA 1781-1850 / Hyderbad. / Scene at the entrance gate of the / city with native ceremonial procession / in progress. / There is an aquatint of this drawing / Philip I[?] Henry / September / 1950 //

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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