A True Artist
Maker
(artist)
1834-1896
1834-1896
Title
A True Artist
Date of Production
1873
Medium
graphite, pen and black ink on wove paper
Dimensions
Height: 26.1 cm
Width: 36.1 cm
Width: 36.1 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.2692
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
Frederick Hoyer Millar (1900-1989); given by him to Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (lower left), 1934; Witt Bequest 1952
Exhibition History
Hats off to du Maurier, Hampstead Museum, London, 09/11/1996-28/02/1997
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 34
p. 34
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Inscription: Recto: lower left, black ink, signed with initials: "DM"; lower left, graphite, dated: "Nov. / 22 / /73."; lower centre, graphite, erased and mostly illegible: "(HMt[...])"; lower right, graphite: "George Louis Palmella du Maurier / French. 1831-1896". Verso: upper left corner, graphite: "x".
Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Recto: lower left, black ink, signed with initials: "DM"; lower left, graphite, dated: "Nov. / 22 / /73."; lower centre, graphite, erased and mostly illegible: "(HMt[...])"; lower right, graphite: "George Louis Palmella du Maurier / French. 1831-1896". Verso: upper left corner, graphite: "x".
Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
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