Sketch for 'Blind Man's Buff' (Buckingham Palace) (recto)
Maker
(artist)
1785-1841
1785-1841
Title
Sketch for 'Blind Man's Buff' (Buckingham Palace) (recto)
Date of Production
1811 - 1813
Medium
pen and brown ink (recto and verso) on wove paper
Dimensions
Height: 4.9 cm
Width: 4.6 cm
Width: 4.6 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.1763.5
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
anonymous sale, Sotheby's (London), 31 January - 1 February 1923, lot 113; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 57
p. 57
Inscriptions
Inscription: 1763 Wilkie / other sketches for same picture now 22 + 47C in Brit. Mus. + at Edinburgh //
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