Basting of an ox (recto)
Figures around a cauldron (verso, only visible in infrared light)
Maker
(artist)
1757-1815
1757-1815
Title
Basting of an ox (recto)
Figures around a cauldron (verso, only visible in infrared light)
Figures around a cauldron (verso, only visible in infrared light)
Date of Production
1806 - 1807
Medium
graphite, red chalk, pen and red (two shades of red) ink, red wash on wove paper
Dimensions
Height: 25.6 cm
Width: 39.4 cm
Width: 39.4 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3082
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
basting spoons
Provenance
Dr Carl Robert Rudolf, London (1884-1974); acquired from him (in exchange, as value of 100 shillings) by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952
Exhibition History
Carnivalesque, Edinburgh City Art Centre, Scotland, 21/10/2000-16/12/2000
Carnivalesque, Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham, England, 15/07/2000-10/09/2000
Carnivalesque, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery & Brighton & England, 06/05/2000-02/07/2000
Carnivalesque, Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham, England, 15/07/2000-10/09/2000
Carnivalesque, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery & Brighton & England, 06/05/2000-02/07/2000
Literature
Carnivalesque, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery; Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham; City Art Centre, Edinburgh, 2000 Hayward Gallery Publishing: London, 2000
no. 109
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 23
no. 109
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 23
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: Verso: centre left: "JOHN WISE / 1804".
Inscription: Recto: throughout the drawing in red ink by the artist: upper left: "Studio / Bear / Hamm"; upper left: "emancipation / [illegible] important / from / of Waldman"; centre: "O delicious Delicious"; centre, in broadsheet on ox's side: "New / system / of / [illegible]"; lower right, red wash, signed: "J. Gillray". Verso: lower centre, red chalk, hard to read: "Apparition of the Salint [?]" [rest of lines illegible]; lower centre, graphite, hard to read: "Apparition of an Ann[illegible]".
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Recto: throughout the drawing in red ink by the artist: upper left: "Studio / Bear / Hamm"; upper left: "emancipation / [illegible] important / from / of Waldman"; centre: "O delicious Delicious"; centre, in broadsheet on ox's side: "New / system / of / [illegible]"; lower right, red wash, signed: "J. Gillray". Verso: lower centre, red chalk, hard to read: "Apparition of the Salint [?]" [rest of lines illegible]; lower centre, graphite, hard to read: "Apparition of an Ann[illegible]".
Collector's mark: none.
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