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An elegant garden party watching a hunt in the background - illustration to 'The Vicar of Wakefield' (recto)

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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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

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

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