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.
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.