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Pile of mackerel

Maker

(artist)
1840-1875

Title

Pile of mackerel

Medium

graphite, watercolour with gum arabic, bodycolour with graphite framing lines on card

Dimensions

Height: 8.2 cm
Width: 14.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1535

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

Mrs Alexander Shannan Stevenson (Alice Isabel), Oatland's Mere, Weybridge (1846-1919); purchased from her estate by Tooth & Sons (London), 23 July 1919 (15 guineas); Alfred Parsons (1847-1920); his sale, Christie's (London), 2 March 1923, lot 38; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) (£5.5, including D.1952.RW.1534); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

British Watercolours and Drawings: Lord Leverhulme's Collection in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Lady Lever Art Gallery, 2010, Liverpool
p. 214
Illus. on p. 215, fig. 59

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

Inscriptions

Inscription: Frederick Walker / 1840-1875 / Study for the Fishmongers Shop / in the Beecham Coll //

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

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