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Sketch for the 'Fortune Teller'

Maker

(artist)
1734-1802

Title

Sketch for the 'Fortune Teller'

Date of Production

(?) 1780 - 1782

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 35.7 cm
Width: 41.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2900

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

F.R. Meatyard (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; WItt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, American Federation of the Arts, Washington, D.C. and nine cities in the USA, 1951

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949 - 1950

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948 ...More

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943 ...Less

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 41

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949-50
no. 42
pl. III

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 64
pl. VI ...More

Humphry Ward and W. Roberts, Romney: A Biographical and Critical Essay with a Catalogue Raisonné of his Works (London, 1904)
vol II, p. 200
Entry for associated painting 'The Fortune-Teller' ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: lower centre: Strasbourg lily over “L V G” (19 cm high, 2.8 cm between chain lines, may be a match to Churchill 413, dated 1775, perhaps an English imitation of a Dutch watermark).

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, graphite: “169 / 34”. Verso: upper right, graphite, erased and only partly legible: “hh – Ag / […] / 88 […]”; lower right corner, graphite: “#5”

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

Label: Exhibited. V&A. 1943// "Arts Council 1948/9//"by British Council in Canada. 1949/50//" " American Federation of Arts, Washington, in 9 cities in the U.S.A. 1951

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