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Man standing in a landscape

Maker

(artist)
1725-1809

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1708-1776

Title

Man standing in a landscape

Date of Production

(circa) 1753 - 1754

Medium

red and black chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 22.2 cm
Width: 12.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1055

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




greatcoats

Provenance

Spencer (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Festival of Britain exhibition of Nottinghamshire art past and present together with certain portraits and relics relating to the history of the county, and a reminder of English taste in the reign of Her Majesty, Queen Victoria., Nottingham Castle Museum, England, 15/09/1951-06/10/1951

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943 ...More

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

Bicentenary memorial exhibition of Thomas Gainsborough: illustrating the various periods of his work, also the work of his contemporaries and his influence on the art of his own and later times., Ipswich Museum, 07/10/1927-05/11/1927 ...Less

Literature

Razzall, Rosie, 'Sandby copying Gainsborough: sharing, sociability, and self-fashioning' in 'Master Drawings', Summer 2020 - pp. 226-46; vol. 58, no. 2
p. 239
Fig. 22 on p. 238

Ribiero, Aileen and Valerie Cumming, The Visual History of Costume, London, Batsford, 1989
p. 145
Illus. p. 145

Ribeiro, Aileen, A visual history of costume: the eighteenth century, London and New York 1983
p. 68
Illus. repr. ...More

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 45

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 70

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

Exhibition of the works of some neglected English masters, c.1750-c.1830, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1932
cat. no. 138
no. 138
as Hayman

Apollo, November 1927
Illus. repr. ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left edge, graphite, according to the Witt card this is a forged 'Spencer' signature: "Hayman". Verso: lower right, graphite, former attribution: "F. Hayman R.A.".

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

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