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View of Scherpenheuvel in Brabant, Belgium

Maker

(artist)
1614-1652

Title

View of Scherpenheuvel in Brabant, Belgium

Date of Production

1630 - 1652

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown, grey and blue wash on laid paper, laid down on card

Dimensions

Height: 16.8 cm
Width: 28.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.479

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

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Provenance

E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£1 16s); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 128

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre, only visible in raking light as is laid down: Posthorn on a shield (see Briquet 7836-7840 and 7862, coming from Northern France and the Low Countries).

Collector's mark: Support (historic), Verso: lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Recto: Upper edge, centre: illegible inscription; lower right (within drawing), brown ink: "ad vivum Delinea per B.P". Support (historic), Verso: lower left, graphite: "Paul Brill".

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