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Sketch of a head with inscriptions

Maker

(artist)
1723-1792

Title

Sketch of a head with inscriptions

Date of Production

(?) 1768

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper with red and black ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 16.2 cm
Width: 18.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1946

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

probably acquired directly from the artist by the Edgcumbe family; by descent to Sir Robert Edgcumbe (d. 1929); purchased from him by E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£3.6); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 39

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: lower centre edge, tops of two letters, the first curved, the second straight:"C [or O?] I [or L? other letter possibilities]".

Inscription: Recto: upper centre, brown ink, crossed out: "opening the / new Academy"; right centre, brown ink: "look"; lower centre, brown ink: "The History of Art. / See Boseux" [sic for Batteux, author of Les Beaux Arts, 1747]. Verso: lower right corner, brown ink: cut off at right edge: "Sir J. Rey[...]".

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

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