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Eagle and hare

Maker

(artist)
1622-1702

Title

Eagle and hare

Date of Production

1684

Medium

pen and brown ink, grey wash and white bodycolour on brown laid paper, incised for transfer, framed with brown ink lines

Dimensions

Height: 14.4 cm
Width: 18.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2425

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




Related Works

An eagle and a hare

Label Text

Barlow was the most important British wildlife painter of his day, described by the diarist John Evelyn as ‘the famous Paynter of fowle, Beastes & Birds’. Many of Barlow’s closely observed natural history subjects were made into prints, either by Barlow himself or by other printmakers. This drawing may have been made specifically as a design for a print engraved by Jan Griffier (an impression of which is also in The Courtauld's collection).

Notes

See also related print by Jan Griffier in the collection (G.1990.WL.2134).

Provenance

Randall Davies (1866-1946); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 1 November 1934; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 16 September 1935, for £6; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Purpose and Process: British and French Printmaking 1600 - 1900, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/05/2014-20/06/2014

Drawings in Print, Courtauld Gallery, Woburn Square, London, 12/02/1983-12/06/1983

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 4

Woodward, John O., Tudor and Stuart Drawings, London: Faber and Faber, 1951
pl. 30

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower right, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Recto: lower right, pen and brown ink, signed and dated by the artist: "F. Barlow / 84"; lower right, graphite: "420".

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