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Wagons and trees

Maker

(artist)
1798-1863

Title

Wagons and trees

Date of Production

August to September 1837

Medium

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

Dimensions

Height: 8.2 cm
Width: 12.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1954.AH.5.20

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

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Notes

The sketchbook has been rotated ninety degrees clockwise so that the sketch is in portrait format.Two pages cut out between D.1954.AH.5.19 and D.1954.AH.5.20.Offset from this drawing is seen on the verso of the previous page (D.1954.AH.5.19) - light transfer from friable stumping, and brown/black marks mirroring the use of black chalk. The verso of this page shows some offset from the following page (D.1954.AH.5.21) - light transfer from friable stumping, and brown/black marks mirroring the use 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: upper right, black chalk: W Burford; lower left, graphite: 20.

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