Study for 'The Vestal Virgins' (recto)
Maker
(artist)
1734-1802
1734-1802
Title
Study for 'The Vestal Virgins' (recto)
Date of Production
1700 - 1799
Medium
graphite, pen and brown ink and brown wash (recto), graphite (verso) on laid paper
Dimensions
Height: 26.3 cm
Width: 41 cm
Width: 41 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.1948
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
Herbert Horne (1864-1916); probably purchased from him by E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£2); Witt Bequest 1952
Exhibition History
Neo-Classical Drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, November 1972-December 1972
Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962
Exhibition of late 18th and early 19th Century Art, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1933 (Jun.-Jul.)
Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962
Exhibition of late 18th and early 19th Century Art, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1933 (Jun.-Jul.)
Literature
Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 9
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 40
Exhibition of late 18th and early 19th Century Art, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1933
cat. no. 9
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 40
Exhibition of late 18th and early 19th Century Art, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1933
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: centre: "IV".
Inscription: Recto: lower right, graphite, underlined, erased: "long way?".
Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner and again on Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Recto: lower right, graphite, underlined, erased: "long way?".
Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner and again on Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
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