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Half-length portrait of a boy

Maker

(artist)
1732-1783

Title

Half-length portrait of a boy

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

red chalk with stumping, blue chalk on laid paper, cut into an oval and inlaid into a paper support

Dimensions

Height: 26.8 cm
Width: 21 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2444

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

Charles Scarisbrick, Lancashire (1801-1860), L.522 (not listed in the catalogue of his sale of drawings on 20 May 1861); Reginald Pole; his sale, Sotheby's (London), 26 March 1930; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), for £1; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

catalogue untraced, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1932

Literature

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

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: crown above letters "GR" (similar to Pro Patria countermarks).

Inscription: Recto: left lower edge, red chalk, signed: "Wm Ryland / Del.". Verso: centre, graphite, partially erased, underlined: "849"; lower centre, overlapping both the drawing and the support, graphite, monogram: a backwards "C” entwined with “G". Support (historic), Recto: lower edge, graphite: "Fine original drawing by Wynne Ryland, the engraver / [next line erased and now illegible]". Support (historic), Verso: lower left, graphite: "L.522" [referring to mark that is on the verso just above this inscription]; lower left, graphite, erased: "9.4"; lower left, graphite, circled: "2589"; lower right, graphite: “ev/ /"; lower right, graphite, partially cut off by hinge: "dfjc[...]"; lower centre edge, graphite: "Drawings by Ryland are extremely rare.".

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left, partially stamped in red: Charles Scarisbrick (L.522).

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