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Artist
James WardBritish, 1769–1859
CultureBritish
Titles
- Landscape at Sunset [recto]; Study of a Pig [verso]
Datec. 1820
MediumWatercolor on two sheets of wove paper, mounted to thick wove paper
DimensionsSheet: 4 1/2 × 14 1/16 in. (11.5 × 35.7 cm)
Artist's Wash Mount: 6 3/8 × 15 7/8 in. (16.2 × 40.3 cm)
Artist's Wash Mount: 6 3/8 × 15 7/8 in. (16.2 × 40.3 cm)
Credit LineThe Stuart Collection, museum purchase funded by Francita Stuart Koelsch Ulmer
Object number2024.17
Not on view
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[1] The scion of a successful German banking family established Britain since the early 1800s, Brandt started collecting in the 1940s and began buying in earnest towards the end of the 1950s, after which time he acquired drawings almost continually until his death. Though initially focused on contemporary art, Brandt grew increasingly interested in earlier work, and he eventually amassed one of the finest, most extensive collections of British drawings dating from 1650 to 1850; in particular, Brandt was a pioneering collector of neoclassical and romantic drawings.
Exhibition HistoryLondon, The Fine Art Society Ltd, Fortieth Exhibition of Early English Water-colours and Drawings, May-June 1960, Cat. 56.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Signed in ink or paint, bottom left corner: JWD. RA
James Ward late in life went through his drawings and marked them with this form of his signature that uses the letters “RA” to make an anagram of “J. Ward”
Verso: Inscribed on back: [illegible} French paper [cursive]
Recto: Inscribed in graphite, lower center: O[illegible] / B[illegible] [cursive]
Verso: [inaccessible]
Recto [mat]: Inscribed in black ink, center bottom edge of window mat: 1769 JAMES WARD R.A. 1859
James Ward late in life went through his drawings and marked them with this form of his signature that uses the letters “RA” to make an anagram of “J. Ward”
Verso: Inscribed on back: [illegible} French paper [cursive]
Recto: Inscribed in graphite, lower center: O[illegible] / B[illegible] [cursive]
Verso: [inaccessible]
Recto [mat]: Inscribed in black ink, center bottom edge of window mat: 1769 JAMES WARD R.A. 1859
Verso [mount]: Stamp in ink, bottom left corner
Recto [inside mat]: Label in printed ink and pen, bottom right corner
TBD
Recto [inside mat]: Label in printed ink and pen, bottom right corner
TBD
Catalogue raisonnéNone
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