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Study for 'Orpheus and Eurydice'

Maker

(artist)
1817-1904

Title

Study for 'Orpheus and Eurydice'

Date of Production

(circa) 1872

Medium

black and white chalk on dark brown wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 56.1 cm
Width: 37.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2982

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

the artist's wife, Mary Watts (1849-1938); given by her to Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1967

Exhibition History

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

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 55

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 85

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to see through heavy paper.

Inscription: Verso: lower right corner, graphite: "#3".

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

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