Coast Landscape

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Coast Landscape

The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London

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Artist

Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)

Title

Coast Landscape

Date

c.1752-56 (undated)

Medium

Black chalk, stump, brown wash with white highlights on grey paper laid down on old fawn card

Dimensions

Metric: 100 x 100 mm; image: 93 mm diameter
Imperial: 3 15/16 x 3 15/16 in.; image: 3 11/16 in. diameter

Collection

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.882

Wilson Online Reference

D197

Exhibited

Manchester 1925 (7)

Provenance

W.E. Lambert; W. Esdaile; J.P. Heseltine; Walker, n.d., bt Sir Robert Clermont Witt; Witt Bequest 1952

Signature/inscription

Unsigned; inscribed lower right in black ink: WE

Collectors' marks

[1] Recto lower right corner: William Esdaile (Lugt 2617)
[2] Verso lower right: Sir Robert Witt

Verso inscriptions

[1] Along base, black ink: 1817 WE [monogram] Lambert coll. P116 N211 - - Wilson
[2] Centre in pencil: 3
[3] Central right edge in pencil: #12

Mount inscriptions

[1] Lower left on secondary support in black ink: 211

Condition/Conservation

Some surface discolouration. Bad discolouration from old glue verso, especially along upper edge and in lower right corner.

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