Study of a man and a woman leaning against a table reading a document
Maker
Attributed to
(artist)
1727-1788
(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
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
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.
Inscription: Verso: lower centre edge, graphite, acc. no.: "1870".
Collector's mark: none.
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