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Return from the hunt

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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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

Literature

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

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