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Imaginary landscape with an exotic harbour and a Dutch three-master disembarking (formerly identified as Table Bay, South Africa)

Maker

(artist)
1644-1708

Title

Imaginary landscape with an exotic harbour and a Dutch three-master disembarking (formerly identified as Table Bay, South Africa)

Date of Production

1675 - 1699

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, grey wash on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 19.5 cm
Width: 28.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.935

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), cat. 38, 1921, lot 231; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (£3.5); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 1: Landscape, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1972 (Jan.-Mar.)

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

Exhibition of marine art, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1929

Literature

Dutch drawings from the Witt Collection: Part 1: Landscape, Courtauld Gallery, London, January - March 1972
cat. no. 33

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: fooslcap with seven points above a "4" above three stacked circles (of a similar type to Heawood 2014, though with many differences - Amsterdam 1668).

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

Inscription: Recto: within the drawing, lower left corner on block, brown ink, signed by the artist: "Al Stork". Verso: lower left, graphite, erased and now illegible: "2 Stúk [...]"; lower centre edge, graphite, Witt number: "935 A Storck".

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