An elegant garden party watching a hunt in the background - illustration to 'The Vicar of Wakefield' (recto)
Maker
(artist)
1777-1866
1777-1866
Title
An elegant garden party watching a hunt in the background - illustration to 'The Vicar of Wakefield' (recto)
Medium
graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolour with some added gum arabic in areas and scratching out (recto), graphite (verso) on wove paper
Dimensions
Height: 25.4 cm
Width: 32.3 cm
Width: 32.3 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3125
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); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 3 July 1942; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 17 February 1943, for £7; Witt Bequest 1952
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 59
p. 59
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: lower centre edge: "J WHATMAN / TURKEY MILL" (any further text cut off by edge).
Inscription: dm/
Inscription: Scene zinz [?] Vicar of / Wakefield //
Inscription: + Pink / as is #3 //
Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)
Inscription: Wright
Inscription: dm/
Inscription: Scene zinz [?] Vicar of / Wakefield //
Inscription: + Pink / as is #3 //
Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)
Inscription: Wright
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