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Clasped hands - study for 'Duncan Gray

Maker

(artist)
1785-1841

Title

Clasped hands - study for 'Duncan Gray

Date of Production

(circa) 1814

Medium

black chalk with stumping on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 11.8 cm
Width: 9.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2777

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

Charles Edward Lees, Werneth Park, Oldham (1840-1894); his estate sale, Christie's (London), 24 April 1936, lot 87; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) with D.1952.RW.2774, 2775 and 2778; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 57

Inscriptions

Inscription: +

Inscription: Duncan Gray. / Study for Meg's Hands. / _"_"_ the Father's Hands. //

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