The Pipe
Maker
(artist)
1679-1772
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
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
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".
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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