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Half-length portrait of a woman

Maker

(artist)
1766-1826

Title

Half-length portrait of a woman

Date of Production

1813

Medium

chalk (black, red, white and blue) on wove paper (now discoloured and brown due to light exposure and possibly an acidic mount)

Dimensions

Height: 25.3 cm
Width: 22.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2700

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

anonymous sale, Sotheby's (London), 26 August 1942, lot 107; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 22 September 1943, for £5; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 55

Inscriptions

Inscription: 1813 / Wm Ward //

Inscription: y/y

Inscription: Mrs. Ward

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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