Half-length portrait of a boy
Maker
(artist)
1732-1783
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
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
Keywords
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
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).
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).
Information on this object may be incomplete and will be updated as research progresses. We are particularly committed to addressing any discriminatory or offensive language and ideas that might be present in our records. To help improve this record, and to enquire about images of The Courtauld Gallery Collection, please email gallery.collectionsonline@courtauld.ac.uk. Find out more about using and licensing our images.
____________________________