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'Her ample presence fills up all the space...' - illustration to 'The Dunciad' by Alexander Pope

Maker

(artist)
1708-1776

Title

'Her ample presence fills up all the space...' - illustration to 'The Dunciad' by Alexander Pope

Date of Production

(circa) 1751

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink, grey wash on laid paper, with grey ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 16.5 cm
Width: 10.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2848

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

Dr Arthur Douglas Heath, Birmingham (1870-1937); his estate sale at Fleetwood, Deakin, Hendriks & Co. (Birmingham), 13 July 1937, lot 212; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 30 September 1937, for £2.10; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Paintings, drawings and prints by Francis Hayman, R.A. 1708-1776, Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood, 1960

Three Exeter artists of the eighteenth century : Francis Hayman, Francis Towne, John White Abbott. Catalogue of loan exhibition by arrangement with the Arts Council of Great Britain, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, 08/05/1951-22/09/1951

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 26

Hammelmann, H. A. The Book Collector, 1953. pp. 116-132.
p. 129

Festival of Britain 1951. Loan Exhibition. Three Exeter Artists of the Eighteenth Century. Francis Hayman, R.A., Francis Towne, John White Abbott, Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery, Exeter, 1951
no. 12

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: left centre (within drawing), grey ink: "THULE".

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

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