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View from a London terrace on St George's Row, Oxford Street

Maker

(artist)
1725-1809

Title

View from a London terrace on St George's Row, Oxford Street

Date of Production

1789

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, laid down on a card mount; the pictorial area now quite browned

Dimensions

Height: 17 cm
Width: 22.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.540

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

D.R. Nott; purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 28 October 1941; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 6 May 1942 (£6); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Festival of Britain exhibition of Nottinghamshire art past and present together with certain portraits and relics relating to the history of the county, and a reminder of English taste in the reign of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria., Nottingham Castle Museum, England, 15/09/1951-06/10/1951

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 45

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: lower centre edge, fragment: lower half of a shield containing a horn.

Inscription: Recto: lower centre edge, graphite, very faded: "Terrace of St Georges Row Oxford Street"; lower right edge, dark brown ink, signed and dated: "Paul Sandby 1789". Support (historic), Recto: lower right edge, graphite: "Hyde Park".

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

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