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Portrait of a young man, full length, standing

Maker

(artist)
1787-1819

Title

Portrait of a young man, full length, standing

Date of Production

1800 - 1819

Medium

graphite with stumping and touches of red bodycolour (in the face) on wove paper, now quite brown in the pictorial area from light exposure

Dimensions

Height: 21.5 cm
Width: 15.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1024

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Provenance

F.R. Meatyard (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£1.5); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Exhibition of late 18th and early 19th Century Art, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1933 (Jun.-Jul.)

Exhibition of the works of some neglected English masters, c.1750-c.1830, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1932

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 25

Exhibition of late 18th and early 19th Century Art, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1933
Illus. repr.

Exhibition of the works of some neglected English masters, c.1750-c.1830, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1932
cat. no. 151

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left, graphite: "Harlow". Verso: lower centre, graphite, circled, abraded by removal of adhesive: "14 [?]". Mount (removed, cut down, and now in pieces in the file): graphite: "Exh: Burlington Fine Arts Club. 1932 / " San Francisco 1933 + Illustrated in Catalogue" and Witt number "1024".

Collector's mark: Verso: lower right, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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