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The Pipe

Maker

(artist)
1679-1772

Title

The Pipe

Date of Production

(circa) 1770

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink, grey wash on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 41.7 cm
Width: 31.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2543

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

E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (verso, lower left), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Cartoonists of the British School, East Kent and Folkestone Arts Centre, Folkestone, UK, 16/03/1968-20/04/1968

Literature

Raines, Robert, Marcellus Laroon, London and New York, 1967
no. 105
fig. 70

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 30

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

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

Inscription: Verso: centre, graphite: "Marcellus Laroon"; lower left corner, graphite, circled: "D. 1561."; lower right corner, graphite, erased: "4/"; lower right corner, graphite, written on adhesive: "9".

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