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    Landscape with Cypresses

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    Landscape with Cypresses
    Landscape with Cypresses
    Landscape with Cypresses
    The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London
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    Artist
    Richard Wilson (1713/14-1782)
    Title
    Landscape with Cypresses
    Date
    c.1752-56 (undated)
    Medium
    Black chalk with white highlights on grey laid paper
    Dimensions
    Metric: 223 x 194 mm
    Imperial: 8 3/4 x 7 5/8 in.
    Collection
    The Courtauld Gallery, London. To license image, click here.
    Accession Number
    D.1952.RW.1575
    Wilson Online Reference
    D381
    Description
    Along low building stands in a central clearing among cypresses or poplars and other trees. Before it are two figures, one sitting and one standing.
    Exhibited
    London 1925 (85 - Trees and House); Manchester 1925 (10); San Francisco 1933 (90); Oxford Art Club 1937 (60); London, Victoria & Albert Museum 1943; Courtauld Institute Galleries 1965, English Landscape Drawings from the Witt Collection
    Provenance
    William Lock of Norbury; his sale, Sotheby's, London 3-7 May 1821; William Esdaile; Sir Robert Witt; Witt Bequest 1952
    Signature/inscription
    Unsigned; inscribed in black ink, lower right corner: WE
    Collectors' marks
    [1] Recto lower right corner: William Esdaile (Lugt 2617)
    [2] Verso lower right: Sir Robert Witt
    Verso inscriptions
    [1] Black ink lower centre: 1821 WE [monogram] Lock's sale N126 P129 - - Wilson
    [2] Faint pencil lower right: 1695
    Previous Cat/Ref Nos
    Witt Collection 1575
    Bibliography
    Antique Collector, May 1936, repr.

    Exhibitions

    • London, National Gallery, Millbank (Tate Gallery), 26 June - 30 September 1925
    • Manchester City Art Gallery, 22 October - 5 December 1925

    Biographies

    • Sir Robert Clermont Witt (1872-1952)
    • William Lock 'of Norbury' (1732-1810)
    • William Esdaile (1758-1837)
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