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Coast landscape

Maker

(artist)
1714-1782

Title

Coast landscape

Medium

black and white chalk with stumping and brown ink on blue laid paper, laid down on a historic support, framed in a circle with black chalk partially gone over in graphite

Dimensions

Height: 10 cm
Width: 10 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.882

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

W.E. Lambert (?); William Esdaile, London (1758-1837), L.2617, by 1817; possibly his estate sale, Christie's (London), 20 - 21 March, any one of lots 614-648, 761-789, 775 or 777; John Postle Heseltine, London (1843-1929); Walker Galleries (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£2.5, also with D.1952.RW.881); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Richard Wilson and John Constable, Oxford Arts Club, 26/10/1937-18/11/1937

Richard Wilson loan exhibition, City of Manchester Art Gallery, 22/10/1925-05/12/1925

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 58

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: 211

Inscription: 1817 WE. Lamberts coll. P116 N211. Wilson

Inscription: 3

Inscription: #12

Collector's mark: collector's mark of William Esdaile (L.2617)

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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