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Blank sketchbook page
Landscape with trees, ruins, bridge, and a figure

Maker

(artist)
1798-1863

Title

Blank sketchbook page
Landscape with trees, ruins, bridge, and a figure

Date of Production

1831-1833

Medium

graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 17.9 cm
Width: 11.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1954.AH.2.57

Mode of Acquisition

A.A.D. Harding, bequest, 1954

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Notes

The corners of the pictorial space delineated by the ruled lines are pin-pricked.An inscription on D.1954.AH.2.67 may indicate that this whole section of the sketchbook - consisting of inverted graphite sketches - dates to the 1850s rather than the 1831-33 date range of the accounts earlier in the sketchbook. This suggests that Harding picked up an old administrative account/travel book with blank pages to reuse as a sketchbook later in his career.

Provenance

James Duffield Harding (1798-1863) and A.R. Harding; by descent to A.A.D. Harding; gift of A.A.D. Harding, 1954.

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: lower right, graphite: 57.

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