Group of four children (recto)
Maker
(artist)
1738-1820
1738-1820
Title
Group of four children (recto)
Date of Production
1783
Medium
pen and brown ink, brown and blue wash (recto), graphite (verso), on laid paper
Dimensions
Height: 18 cm
Width: 12.3 cm
Width: 12.3 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.241
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
Hibbard; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£5); Witt Bequest 1952
Exhibition History
catalogue untraced, San Francisco, 1938
Literature
Gidley, Mick, A catalogue of American paintings in British public collection, Exeter: University of Exeter, 1974
p. 15
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 56
p. 15
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 56
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: lower left edge, brown ink, signed and dated: B. West 1783..
Collector's mark: Support (removed, now in object file), Recto: lower left corner and again on verso, lower right corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Support (removed, now in object file), Recto: upper centre, graphite: West - signature.
Inscription: Support (removed, now in object file), Verso: upper centre, brown ink: a group of Children - Study from Nature. / Benjn. West .
Watermark: none.
Collector's mark: Support (removed, now in object file), Recto: lower left corner and again on verso, lower right corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Support (removed, now in object file), Recto: upper centre, graphite: West - signature.
Inscription: Support (removed, now in object file), Verso: upper centre, brown ink: a group of Children - Study from Nature. / Benjn. West .
Watermark: none.
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