Return from the hunt
Maker
(artist)
1757-1827
1757-1827
Title
Return from the hunt
Date of Production
(circa?) 1787
Medium
graphite, pen and brown and grey ink, watercolour on wove paper, laid down on a historic support
Dimensions
Height: 11.9 cm
Width: 19.3 cm
Width: 19.3 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.2860
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
anonymous sale ('Property of a Gentleman, an important series of drawings by Rowlandson from a family album'), Sotheby's (London), 7 July 1937, lot 108; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 29 October 1937 (£15); Witt Bequest 1952
Exhibition History
catalogue untraced, Forty Hall, Enfield, 1970
A loan exhibition of important drawings by Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, Ellis & Smith's Galleries, London, 06/05/1948-29/05/1948
Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943 ...More
A Loan exhibition of English and French paintings and drawings, Wigan Grammar School, 06/04/1938-30/04/1938 ...Less
A loan exhibition of important drawings by Thomas Rowlandson, 1756-1827, Ellis & Smith's Galleries, London, 06/05/1948-29/05/1948
Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943 ...More
A Loan exhibition of English and French paintings and drawings, Wigan Grammar School, 06/04/1938-30/04/1938 ...Less
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 42
p. 42
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Collector's mark: Support (historic), Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: lower right corner, graphite: "11". Support (historic), Verso: upper centre, graphite: "33/2".
Collector's mark: Support (historic), Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: lower right corner, graphite: "11". Support (historic), Verso: upper centre, graphite: "33/2".
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