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The Child's secret

Maker

(artist)
1835-1921

Title

The Child's secret

Date of Production

1888

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink on wove paper, the pictorial area now very browned with acid burns around the edges

Dimensions

Height: 17.7 cm
Width: 11.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2583

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

acquired from the artist by Charles Morley, London (1853-1916) [presumably for publication in the Pall Mall Gazette, for which Morley was editor]; given by him to Emily Constance Cook (née Baird), 16 October 1888; F.R. Meatyard (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (verso, lower left), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 33

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left lower edge, very faint, unclear and cut off by edge, the first line in cursive, the second in Gothic letters: "[...]ant / [...]C. [or G.]".

Inscription: Recto: lower centre edge, brown ink, titled and signed: ""The Child's Secret" RA D Leslie". Verso: upper centre, graphite: "original drawing by / G D Leslie for Picture / of 1888- / given to my wife / by the editor Charles Morely / Oct 16. 1888 E T Cook"; lower right, graphite: "19"; lower centre edge, graphite: "#3". Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower right, graphite: "George Dunlop Leslie / (son of C.R. Leslie) / 1835-1921 / Signed / "The Child's Secret" 1888. / Coll. E.T. Cook.".

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

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