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Starling
Maker
1753-1828
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Date of Production
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Dimensions
Width: 25.8 cm
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Credit
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Keywords
Starlings
Provenance
Exhibition History
Romantic Art in Britain: Paintings and Drawings 1760-1860, Philadelphia & USA, 01/03/1968-01/04/1968 ...More
Romantic Art in Britain: Paintings and Drawings 1760-1860, Detroit & USA, 01/01/1968-01/02/1968
unnumbered typescript - title was possibly 'A Selection of Drawings from The Witt/Courtauld Collections [as exhibited in 1964 at University of Sussex, Falmer]', Nottingham University, 1966
catalogue untraced, Eton College, 1950
Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA) exhibition, London & England, 1943-1944
Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943
Desenul şi gravura englezá, secole le XVIII-XX. Expoziţie de desen, acuaretà, pastel şi gravurǎ subtoate formele / Ausstellung von Britischen Aquarellen Zeichnungen, Muzeul Roma Stelian, Bucharest; Prague; Vienna, 15/12/1935-02/03/1936
British Art Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 06/01/1934-10/03/1934 ...Less
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 6
Taylor, Basil, Animal Painting in England from Barlow to Landseer, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1955.
p. 55
pl. 39 ...More
William, Iolo A., Early English Watercolours, London: The Connoisseur, 1952
pp. 206-207
pl. 318
Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 4
Desenul şi gravura englezá, secole le XVIII-XX. Expoziţie de desen, acuaretà, pastel şi gravurǎ subtoate formele / Ausstellung von Britischen Aquarellen Zeichnungen, Muzeul Roma Stelian, Bucharest; Prague; Vienna, 1935-1936
British Art Exhibition: commemorative catalogue, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1934
cat. no. 1164
no. 683 ...Less
Inscriptions
Collector's mark: Recto: lower left, stamped (fragment): Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Recto: lower left, pen and brown ink, artist’s hand: "The eye a little high & bright / the Body a little more plump."; lower right, pen and brown ink, signed by the aritst?: "Thomas Bewick"; lower centre, pen and brown ink over graphite: "The Natural size".
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