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Middleton Tower

Maker

(artist)
1782-1842

Title

Middleton Tower

Date of Production

1818

Medium

graphite, brown and grey wash on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 21.7 cm
Width: 17.8 cm

Accession Number

D.2007.DS.10

Mode of Acquisition

Dorothy Scharf, bequest, 2007 (March)

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords






Provenance

Dr Lewis Fry; Christie's (London), 10 November 1980, lot 145; purchased there by Miss Dorothy Scharf, London (1942-2004); Scharf Bequest 2007.
Label from back of drawing (in file) for Anthony Reed, English Drawings and Paintings, London (n.d.)

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, graphite, signed and dated: "1818 J.S. Cotman". Verso: upper left, graphite: "8914"; upper right, graphite: "L. Fry"; centre, graphite, written vertically, hard to read: "J girar[?]"; right centre, graphite: "Middleton Tower / Norfolk"; lower right, graphite: "Fry / Cotman / C31"; lower left corner, graphite, hidden under support so only tops of letters visible: "PIA 129".

Collector's mark: none.

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