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Study for 'The Vestal Virgins' (recto)

Maker

(artist)
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

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.)

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

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).

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