Water-rail
Maker
(artist)
1749-1819
1749-1819
Title
Water-rail
Date of Production
(9 January) 1799
Medium
graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolour on laid paper including fictive mount with framing lines of grey ink and wash
Dimensions
Height: 49 cm
Width: 36 cm
Width: 36 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.4530
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
Walker Gallery (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 24
p. 24
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: centre: Strasburg lily above cursive "W" (must be a Whatman mark, see Churchill 415, but no match found in Churchill or Heawood).
Inscription: Recto: lower left corner (within drawing), brown ink, signed and dated: "MGriffith Jany 9th 1799"; lower centre margin, black ink: "WATER RAIL"; lower right margin, graphite, Witt's hand: "1749 - p. 1809 by Moses Griffith" [the "oses" clearly added later as it is squeezed under the surname].
Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner in margin, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Recto: lower left corner (within drawing), brown ink, signed and dated: "MGriffith Jany 9th 1799"; lower centre margin, black ink: "WATER RAIL"; lower right margin, graphite, Witt's hand: "1749 - p. 1809 by Moses Griffith" [the "oses" clearly added later as it is squeezed under the surname].
Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner in margin, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
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