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Caricature of two human faces, related to a donkey and a pig

Maker

(artist)
1757-1827

Title

Caricature of two human faces, related to a donkey and a pig

Date of Production

(c.) 1822 - 1827

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolour on laid paper, laid down on a historic support

Dimensions

Height: 21.7 cm
Width: 18.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2914

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

Louis Deglatigny, Rouen (1854-1936); his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 11 May 1938, lot 59 (with 14 others); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), along with D.1952.RW.2909, 2910 and 2911, for 4 shillings each; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 42

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, right edge (backwards, but is not visible from verso b/c of support): "BATH / 1822".

Inscription: Recto: upper centre, brown ink: "Tabella humanae auris de liniatione insignit a proponitur, ut afinina collatione / ejus stolida magnitudo exquisitins dignoscatur. / Magna aures"; centre, brown ink: "Asumno crassus nasus"; lower centre, brown ink: "Suillam caput cum divulsis ad nasum superciliis, idemque humanum illius simulachrum / exprimens, oculis fulicimus". Verso (hidden behind support, only visible via transmitted light): centre, graphite, circled: "9065"; lower right, graphite: "15 / 9b" [?]; lower right, graphite: "#2" [?]. Support (historic), Recto: lower left, graphite: "2266".

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left, stamped in red: Louis Deglatigny (L.1768a). Support (old), Recto: lower left, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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