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Fox hunting: 'Going Away' (recto)

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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

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.

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