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Three trees on a hillside

Maker

(artist)
1798-1863

Title

Three trees on a hillside

Date of Production

24th August 1837

Medium

synthetic black chalk with stumping and white bodycolour on blue-grey wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 12.6 cm
Width: 8.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1954.AH.5.1

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 sketchbook has been rotated ninety degrees clockwise so that the sketch is in portrait format.The verso shows some offset from the following page (D.1954.AH.5.2) - light transfer from the friable stumping, and brown/black marks mirroring the usage of black chalk.

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 left, black chalk: Beilt...en [?] Augt. 24 / 1837 -; lower right, graphite: 1.

Watermark: Verso: centre, cut off on both sides by edge of sheet: ...ITH & / 18... (Smith & Allnutt, 1834)

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