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John Howard visiting a lazaretto

Maker

(artist)
1734-1802

Title

John Howard visiting a lazaretto

Date of Production

(circa) 1790

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink, grey wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 33.5 cm
Width: 54 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3173

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

philanthropists

lazarettos

Provenance

Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt bequest, 1952

Exhibition History

Gothic Nightmares - Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination, Tate Britain, London, 15/02/2006-01/05/2006

George Romney, National Portrait Gallery, London, 30/05/2002-18/08/2002

George Romney, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, England, 08/02/2002-21/04/2002; National Portrait Gallery, London, 30/05/2002-18/08/2002; Huntington Museum and Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA, 15/09/2002-01/12/2002 ...More

George Romney, Walker Art Gallery & Liverpool & England, 07/02/2002-28/04/2002

Neo-Classical Drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, November 1972-December 1972

An exhibition of English drawings and water colors from British collections, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 16/04/1962-03/06/1962

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 01/09/1960-01/10/1960

Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1958-59

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London; York City Art Gallery; Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943 ...Less

Literature

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London, York City Art Gallery and Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953
cat. no. 32

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 41

Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1958 - 1959
cat. no. 42 ...More

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1960
cat. no. 15a

An exhibition of English drawings and water colors from British collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1962
cat. no. 64
ill. on p. 30

Morgan Library & Museum, The Thaw Collection of Master Drawings: acquisitions since 2002, New York 2009
pp. 65-66
fig. 1 under no. 21

Gothic Nightmares - Fuseli, Blake and the Romantic Imagination, Tate Britain, London, 2006 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre: coat of arms containing a large circle containing a star (similar style to Heawood 611 but not a match, dated 1788-89).

Collector's mark: Mount: lower left corner, stamped: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

Inscription: Verso: lower right, graphite: "3959". Mount: Recto: lower centre, ink: "G. ROMNEY". Verso: upper right, blue pencil: "155" [underlined]; upper right, stamped in black: "...RGE ...OMNEY"; lower centre, graphite: "B"; lower left, graphite: "2...17"

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