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Lion and lioness asleep

Maker

(artist)
1805-1876

Title

Lion and lioness asleep

Date of Production

1823

Medium

black chalk, moistened in areas, white bodycolour on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 28.6 cm
Width: 43.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1778

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

Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), by 1824 [according to the engraving after it, though no Lugt mark]; F.R. Meatyard (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 1921; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

John Frederick Lewis: Facing Fame, Watts Gallery, Surrey, 09/07/2019-03/11/2019

John Frederick Lewis, RA, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 30/05/2008-26/10/2008

J.F. Lewis R.A. (1805-1876) - Painter of the Desert and Harem, Guildford, 1977 ...More

The Life and Work of Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A., Sheffield, 06/02/1972-12/03/1972

John Frederick Lewis R.A., Newcastle Festival, 1971

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948

200th Winter Exhibition, Royal British Academy, Suffolk Street, London, 1943-44 ...Less

Literature

The Young Lion: Early Drawings by John Frederick Lewis RA (1804-1876) (a guide to the display), Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2008
no. 21

J.F. Lewis, R.A. (1805-1876): painter of the desert and harem, Guildford House Gallery, 1977
no. 2

John Frederick Lewis R.A. 1805-1876, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1971, Newcastle Festival
Illus. repr. ...More

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 33

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 51

Hubbard, Hesketh, Some Victorian Draughtsmen, Cambridge, 1944
Illus. pl. 35 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left, black chalk, second line cut off by lower edge, signed and dated: "J F Lewis 1823 / [cut off]". Mount (removed, now missing, recorded in Modes): lower left and lower right, pen and ink: "J.F.Lewis / 1823".

Collector's mark: none.

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