Zwinger Palace, Dresden

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Maker

(artist)
1783-1852

Title

Zwinger Palace, Dresden

Date of Production

1829

Medium

graphite with stumping and white bodycolour on light blue wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 40.7 cm
Width: 26.9 cm

Object Number

D.1959.WF.4680

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Fund, purchase, 1959

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Recto: on column at right (within drawing), graphite, colour notes: "grey br"; on bricks at far upper right, graphite, colour notes: "drk br"; lower right corner, graphite, location: "Dresden / Zwinger Palace".

Provenance

Miss Annie Gertrude Wigram, Cobham (1853-1912); her estate sale, Christie's (London), 31 July 1958, lot 76; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by the Courtauld Institute via the Witt Fund, 4 March 1959; Witt Fund 1959

Exhibition History

Turner, Prout, Steer: Three Bequests to the Courtauld Institute of Art, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1980-1980
English Landscape Drawings [catalogue not found], Rye Art Gallery, England, 1971
Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966

Literature

Turner Prout Steer Three Bequests to the Courtauld Institute of Art, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1980
no. 8 (Prout)
Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966
cat. no. 59

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