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Bust portrait of a boy

Maker

(artist)
1732-1783

Title

Bust portrait of a boy

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

coloured chalks with added wash on laid paper (formerly laid down but now separated, still sharing a mount with its former backing sheet), cut into an oval

Dimensions

Height: 19.2 cm
Width: 15.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.240.1

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

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Provenance

gift of F. R. Meatyard (London) to Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 44

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre: imperial crown above letters: GR (see IMAF photos; similar to Pro Patria countermarks).

Inscription: Recto: lower right, graphite, signed: WWRyland / del-.

Collector's mark: On former backing sheet (now D.1952.RW.240.2), lower centre: stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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