Miss Marsden - back view

Copyright

Work in the public domain
Image: Courtauld
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Maker

(artist)
1725-1809
Formerly attributed to
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1708-1776

Title

Miss Marsden - back view

Date of Production

(circa) 1752 - 1760

Medium

red and white chalk with stumping on laid paper, prepared with a light brown wash just under the figure

Dimensions

Height: 24.3 cm
Width: 16 cm

Object Number

D.1952.RW.1130

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display
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Label Text

Sandby formed the habit of making figure studies and sketching people going about their daily business during the three years he spent in Scotland following his appointment to the Duke of Cumberland's Survey of the Highlands in 1747. He continued the practice throughout his career, building up a stock of studies for use when he required staffage for his topographical compositions. A drawing also identified as Miss Marsden, but seen from the front, is in the Royal Collection at Windsor. The initials FH refer to an earlier attribution to the artist Francis Hayman.

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, right centre edge: tip of crown from a Strasburg lily.

Inscription: Recto: lower centre edge, graphite, titled by artist: "Miss Marsden"; lower right edge, graphite: "E"; lower right edge, graphite, a forged signature according to Witt card: "F.H.". Verso, lower centre, graphite, former attribution: "F. Hayman RA".

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

Provenance

Spencer (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, by January 1926 (when published in The Connoisseur); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

English portraits: from Francis Bacon, the philosopher to Francis Bacon, the painter., National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (organised by British Council), 01/10/1975-01/12/1975
Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1958-59
Drawings from the Robert Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, St James's Square, London; York City Art Gallery; Peterborough Art Gallery, 01/06/1953-25/07/1953
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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
Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943
Desenul şi gravura englezá, secole le XVIII-XX. Expoziţie de desen, acuaretà, pastel şi gravurǎ subtoate formele / Ausstellung von Britischen Aquarellen Zeichnungen, Muzeul Roma Stelian, Bucharest; Prague; Vienna, 15/12/1935-02/03/1936
British Art Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 06/01/1934-10/03/1934
catalogue untraced, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1932
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
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Literature

Mantegna to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Courtauld, British Museum, London, 1983
cat. no. 92
Fig. p. 93
English Portraits, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo (organised by British Council), 1975
cat. no. 116
Illus. repr.
Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1958 - 1959
cat. no. 71
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Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 45
Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London, York City Art Gallery and Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953
cat. no. 38
Oppé, A.P., The drawings of Paul and Thomas Sandby in the collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle, Oxford, Phaidon Press, 1947
under no. 272
Desenul şi gravura englezá, secole le XVIII-XX. Expoziţie de desen, acuaretà, pastel şi gravurǎ subtoate formele / Ausstellung von Britischen Aquarellen Zeichnungen, Muzeul Roma Stelian, Bucharest; Prague; Vienna, 1935-1936
cat. no. 194 (as Hayman)
Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of British Art 1934, Royal Academy, 1934 Oxford 1935
no. 571
Illus. pl. CXLIV
British Art Exhibition: commemorative catalogue, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1934
cat. no. 1308
no. 571
Illus. pl. CXLIV
Exhibition of the works of some neglected English masters, c.1750-c.1830, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1932
cat. no. 139
as Hayman
Baker, C.H. Collins, 'Some Eighteenth-Century Drawings in the Witt Collection' in 'The Connoisseur', January 1926
Illus. no. IX
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