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Study of a man and a woman leaning against a table reading a document

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1727-1788

Title

Study of a man and a woman leaning against a table reading a document

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

black chalk treated with a fixative or varnish that has browned, on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 10 cm
Width: 8.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1870

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.1868 and 1869; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); 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. 22

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Verso, right centre: circle containing crown above "GR" flanked by leaves (close match to Churchill 248 though without the bell - dated 1764).

Inscription: Verso: lower centre edge, graphite, acc. no.: "1870".

Collector's mark: none.

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