Sketch for the 'Fortune Teller'
Maker
(artist)
1734-1802
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
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
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
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
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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