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Study of four female figures (recto)

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1727-1788

Title

Study of four female figures (recto)

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink and grey wash (recto), graphite (verso) on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 7.7 cm
Width: 7.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1403

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

Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£2.65 including RW.1402 and 1404); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

catalogue untraced, Eton College, 1950

catalogue untraced, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 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

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 21

Hayes, John, The Drawings of Thomas Gainsborough, London 1970
p. 324

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso, lower centre, graphite, acc. no.: "1403" and beside that "6a".

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

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