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Basting of an ox (recto)
Figures around a cauldron (verso, only visible in infrared light)

Maker

(artist)
1757-1815

Title

Basting of an ox (recto)
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

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

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

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.

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