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Sketch for 'Blind Man's Buff' (Buckingham Palace)

Maker

(artist)
1785-1841

Title

Sketch for 'Blind Man's Buff' (Buckingham Palace)

Date of Production

1811 - 1813

Medium

black chalk on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 5.3 cm
Width: 9.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1763.7

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

Inscriptions

Inscription: 1763 Wilkie / other sketches for same picture now 22 + 47C in Brit. Mus. + at Edinburgh //

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