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Sketch of an angel with mother and child (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1734-1802

Title

Sketch of an angel with mother and child (recto)

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

pen and dark brown ink (recto), pen and a lighter brown ink (vers) on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 19.7 cm
Width: 16.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1918

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

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Provenance

Sotheby's (London), as 'Sketch for Hagar?'; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£1); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 40

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left centre edge, fragment: top of either a Vryheyt or Britannia (probably, though no clear matches found in Churchill or Heawood based on limited visibility of mark).

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, graphite: a check mark.

Label: Detached from old mount, now kept separately from file: graphite: artist's name and dates, title (given as "Angel visiting Hagar").//From a sketch book of the artist//Witt coll. 1840s.

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

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