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Half-length portrait of a lady (recto)

Maker

Thomas Sully (artist)
1783-1872

Title

Half-length portrait of a lady (recto)

Medium

oil paint (recto), chalk (black) with stumping (verso), on prepared brown wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 27.9 cm
Width: 18.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1968

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

by descent to Mrs. A.W. Sully; Ehrich Galleries (New York), October-November 1924, no. 43; possibly purchased there by Helen Clay Frick, New York (1888-1984); given by her to Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 49

Inscriptions

Inscription: #10

Inscription: Thomas Sully / American / 1783-1872 / see reverse //

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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