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Whipping at the cart-tail, Charing Cross

Maker

(artist)
1721-1786

Title

Whipping at the cart-tail, Charing Cross

Date of Production

(circa) 1768

Medium

graphite on laid paper, incised for transfer, laid down on a paper support

Dimensions

Height: 17.9 cm
Width: 11.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1040

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

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Provenance

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

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 54

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: left centre edge, fragment: imperial crown above a small fleur-de-lis - probably top of a coat-of-arms.

Inscription: By Wale RA

Inscription: #24

Inscription: 1040

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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