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Block plan of Greenwich Hospital, with explanatory key

Maker


1661-1736

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1632-1723

Title

Block plan of Greenwich Hospital, with explanatory key

Date of Production

1700 - 1702

Medium

traces of graphite, pen and brown ink, grey wash (for the diagram), accompanied by extensive brown ink inscriptions, in some cases written over graphite, on four sheets of joined laid paper, laid down, all four corners made up; large cluster of pinholes at upper left centre

Dimensions

Height: 37.1 cm
Width: 70.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1961.XX.2.4

Mode of Acquisition

Geoffrey F. Webb, gift, 1960

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords



keys (texts)

Provenance

John Edmund Gardner (1819-1899); by descent to his son; purchased from him en bloc by Major Sir Edward Coates (1853-1921), 1910; his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 1-5 May 1924, probably lot 2232 (18 items); purchased there by B.T. Batsford (London) (£5.5 for all 18); purchased there by Professor Geoffrey Webb (1898-1970), circa 1927-28; Webb Gift 1960 Provenance detailed by Kerry Downes in the file for D.1961.XX.2.1.

Exhibition History

Architectural Drawings from the Witt Collection, University of Nottingham, 01/05/1972-01/06/1972

Drawings from the Witt Collection, University of Southampton, 16/02/1970-04/03/1970

Architectural Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/07/1961-01/10/1961

Literature

Architectural Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1961
cat. no. 16

Downes, Kerry, Hawksmoor, 1959

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left centre: Strasburg lily over monogram "WR".

Inscription: Recto, all in Hawksmoor's hand: the central diagram is labelled in brown ink throughout, in some cases over graphite, with letters “A” through “Z” and numbers “1” through “56”; left of the diagram are two extensive columns of brown ink text, labelled “General References”, and to the right of the diagram are two extensive columns of brown ink text labelled “The Names of the Courts Gallerys and Pavilions and the / contents of each.” [neither column is here transcribed]; a graphite inscription at lower centre has been erased with only a “?” remaining. Verso (backing sheet): lower right, graphite: “Greenwich Hospital”.

Collector's mark: none.

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