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Studies of a man and woman walking together and another woman seen from behind

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1727-1788

Title

Studies of a man and woman walking together and another woman seen from behind

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

pen and grey ink on laid paper, all four corners cut

Dimensions

Height: 4.5 cm
Width: 5.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1868

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

George Henry Anson, Catton Hall, Derbyshire (1888-1957); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 17-18 April 1923, lots 2103-4 and 2105-7 (together with D.1952.RW.1869 and 1870); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

catalogue untraced, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1932

Literature

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

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

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, right centre: too fragmentary to identify.

Inscription: Verso: lower centre, graphite, acc. no.: "1868".

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

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