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Coast Landscape
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
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Collection
The Courtauld Gallery, London. To license image, click here.
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.
Exhibitions
Manchester City Art Gallery, 22 October - 5 December 1925
Biographies
Sir Robert Clermont Witt (1872-1952)
William Esdaile (1758-1837)
John Postle Heseltine (1843-1929)