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Landscape near Portmadoc, Wales

Maker

(artist)
1797-1856

Title

Landscape near Portmadoc, Wales

Date of Production

1850

Medium

graphite, watercolour and bodycolour on card, partially laid down (some of backing sheet torn away)

Dimensions

Height: 14.6 cm
Width: 27.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4534

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

Squire Gallery (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d., for 300 shillings; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

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

L'Aquarelle Romantique en France et en Angleterre, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Calais, 29/07/1961-17/09/1961

Literature

English Landscape Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965
cat. no. 51

L'Aquarelle Romantique en France et en Angleterre, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Calais, 1961
cat. no. 43

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 18

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower centre (foreground of drawing), brown ink, described, signed and dated: “Port Madoc / Wm Evans . 1850.”. Verso: lower centre, graphite, surname underlined: “6020 / Near Port Madoc / W. Evans C/K”.

Collector's mark: none.

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