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Lane with trees

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1776-1837

Title

Lane with trees

Date of Production

(circa) 1800 - 1820

Medium

graphite and watercolour, with scratching out, on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 45.6 cm
Width: 31.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1967.WS.17

Mode of Acquisition

William Wycliffe Spooner, bequest, 1967

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords



Provenance

Leonard G. Duke, London (1890-1971); Guy D. Harvey Samuel, London (1887-1960); his property exhibited at Fine Art Society’s (London) Spring 1960 selling exhibition; purchased there by Mr and Mrs William Wycliffe Spooner, Ilkley (1882-1967), 27 April 1960 (£850); Spooner Bequest 1967

Exhibition History

Fortieth exhibition - early English water-colours and drawings., Fine Art Society, London, 1960 (Spring)

British Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Huntington Museum and Art Gallery, Los Angeles, 12/02/2005-15/05/2005

British Watercolours from the Spooner Collection, Huntington Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 12/02/2005-15/05/2005; Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, 18/07/2005-23/10/2005; Hermitage Rooms, Somerset House, London, 16/11/2005-12/02/2006 ...More

Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 16/10/1991-19/01/1992

The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/04/1968-01/07/1968 ...Less

Literature

The William Spooner Collection and Bequest, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1968
cat. no. 69
pl. XIV

Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1991
cat. no. 25
pp. 58, 177
ill. on p. 59

Reynolds, Graham, The early paintings and drawings of John Constable, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1996
no. 05.9 on p. 61
pl. 248 ...More

Lyles, Anne, Review of 'The early paintings and drawings of John Constable by Graham Reynolds' in 'Burlington Magazine', March 1999; CXVI, 1152
p. 183

The Spooner Collection of British Watercolours, Courtauld Institute Galleries; Huntington Library; Wordsworth Trust, 2005-06
cat. no. 58
ill. on p. 189 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Verso: upper edge: "1794 / J WHATMAN".

Inscription: Verso, left lower edge, graphite: “Octr 1”. Support (removed, cut down, and now in file): graphite, circled: “961P”; graphite: “Lane under Trees / John Constable Role[?] / 59/11/1942”. Mount (removed, cut down, now in portfolio from P&D), Recto: lower left corner, graphite: “178-27=259”; lower centre, graphite: “probably German”; right edge, graphite: “P / item 133 C85 / £80 //”.

Collector's mark: none.

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