Fox hunting: 'Going Away' (recto)
Maker
(artist)
1785-1851
1785-1851
Title
Fox hunting: 'Going Away' (recto)
Date of Production
(circa) 1819 - 1830
Medium
graphite and watercolour with graphite framing lines (recto), graphite (verso), on wove paper
Dimensions
Height: 21.2 cm
Width: 29.5 cm
Width: 29.5 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3090
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
Dr Carl Robert Rudolf, London (1884-1974); acquired from him (in exchange) by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 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
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
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 3
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. 1
Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 1
p. 3
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. 1
Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 1
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Inscription: Recto: upper left, graphite: "Going Away"; lower left, graphite, signed by the artist: "H. Alken.". Verso: left centre, graphite: "Marmion / Norham / Marmion".
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Recto: upper left, graphite: "Going Away"; lower left, graphite, signed by the artist: "H. Alken.". Verso: left centre, graphite: "Marmion / Norham / Marmion".
Collector's mark: none.
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