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Sketch for 'The Village Festival' (Tate Gallery) (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1785-1841

Title

Sketch for 'The Village Festival' (Tate Gallery) (recto)

Date of Production

1809 - 1811

Medium

black chalk (recto), black and white chalk (verso) on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 12.3 cm
Width: 8.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2295.1

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

Bruscoli (Florence); purchased there by 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. 57

Inscriptions

Inscription: Village Festival. / Hand of the Man sitting at table with a glass. / The hand of the Landlord emptying the bottle. / Girl's hand with the Can, under the window. / Another study for the same colored. / Two studies for the Group under the porch. / at the back a Sketch for the Pedlar hand and / pipe. //

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

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