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Bust portrait of a man (Daniel Defoe?)

Maker

(artist)
1616-1691

Title

Bust portrait of a man (Daniel Defoe?)

Date of Production

1660 - 1691?

Medium

graphite, watercolour on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 32.7 cm
Width: 22.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1990

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); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (10 shillings); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 18

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: crossed L-shaped sticks, like spokes of a wheel, with letters in between: "A", "A" and "B" (not found in Heawood or Churchill. Similar type structure without the letters is Churchill 533 dated 1722).

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, graphite: “VII – 3”; lower right, within drawing, brown ink unclear, signed with monogram?: “Gvil[?]” [Faithorne did sign his prints "Guil." but unable to find a written version of this for comparison]; lower left, graphite: “71”. Verso: lower right, graphite: “D. Defoe ? / by William Faithorne / the younger”.

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

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