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Tintern Abbey

Maker

(artist)
1744-1828

Title

Tintern Abbey

Date of Production

1744 - 1828

Medium

graphite, black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey and blue wash on laid paper, laid down on a historic paper support

Dimensions

Height: 18.5 cm
Width: 27 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.838

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), L.2228b (lower left), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Tintern Abbey, Chepstow Museum, Chepstow, UK, 24/05/2014-28/09/2014

Literature

Sites of Inspiration: Tintern Abbey, Chepstow Museum, 2014
no. 19

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 49

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Support (historic), Recto: lower centre edge, bottoms of letters but looks like "J WHATMAN".

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, black chalk, apparently forged signature: “P. Sandby.” Support (historic), Recto: upper centre edge, graphite: “45”; lower centre margin, graphite, partly erased: “Tintern Abbey / Taken near the [...] / T. Sunderland”. Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower right, graphite: “Thomas Sunderland / op 1798 / Tintern Abbey.”

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

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