The Child's secret
Maker
(artist)
1835-1921
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
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
Keywords
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
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).
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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