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Hermit's cave with rocks and a tree in India

Maker

(artist)
1733-1810

Title

Hermit's cave with rocks and a tree in India

Date of Production

1788

Medium

chalk (black, red and white) on blue laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 28.4 cm
Width: 34.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1982.JW.26

Mode of Acquisition

John Witt, Art Fund bequest & grant aid, 1982

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Provenance

probably the artist's estate sale, Robins (London), 9 May 1811 among lots 14-39 (unaware of any annotated catalogues); Brigadier Hutchinson; by descent to Major R.G. Hutchinson; purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 1 March 1955; purchased there by Sir John Witt (1907-1982), 22 March 1957 (£12); John Witt Bequest via the Art Fund 1982

Exhibition History

Imagining Islands, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 20/06/2013-21/07/2013

Zoffany: painter of the Georgian scene, National Portrait Gallery, London, 14/01/1977-27/03/1977

Literature

Webster, Mary, Johann Zoffany, 1733-1810, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011
fig. 387 on p. 519

Johann Zoffany, 1733-1810, National Portrait Gallery, London, 1977
no. 130
ill. on p. 91

Inscriptions

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir John Witt (L.646a)

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