Rocky landscape near Corpo di Cava, Salerno
Maker
(artist)
1805-1876
1805-1876
Title
Rocky landscape near Corpo di Cava, Salerno
Date of Production
1838
Medium
black chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolour with some added gum arabic, bodycolour on blue-grey wove paper (now discoloured brown on the recto)
Dimensions
Height: 36 cm
Width: 25.6 cm
Width: 25.6 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.693
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
Spencer (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), May or June 1922 [according to Troutman's notes in the file, but no explanation of his basis for this date]; Witt Bequest 1952
Exhibition History
J.F. Lewis R.A. (1805-1876) - Painter of the Desert and Harem, Guildford, 1977
English Landscape Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/01/1965-01/05/1965
English Landscape Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/01/1965-01/05/1965
Literature
J.F. Lewis, R.A. (1805-1876): painter of the desert and harem, Guildford House Gallery, 1977
no. 15
English Landscape Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965
cat. no. 55
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 33
no. 15
English Landscape Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965
cat. no. 55
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 33
Inscriptions
Watermark: none.
Inscription: Recto: lower left, graphite, now almost invisible: "Cava". Verso, upper left edge, graphite: "Corpo de Cava". Mount (removed, now missing, recorded in Modes), Recto: lower right, pen and ink (?): "J.F.Lewis".
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Recto: lower left, graphite, now almost invisible: "Cava". Verso, upper left edge, graphite: "Corpo de Cava". Mount (removed, now missing, recorded in Modes), Recto: lower right, pen and ink (?): "J.F.Lewis".
Collector's mark: none.
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