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Peasants at a table

Maker

(artist)
1768-1821

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1734-1804

Title

Peasants at a table

Date of Production

1800

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 17.9 cm
Width: 23.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3179

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

possibly Colnaghi (London); Dr Carl Robert Rudolf, London (1884-1974); acquired from him (in exchange) by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Morgan Library & Museum, The Thaw Collection of Master Drawings: acquisitions since 2002, New York 2009

Walker Art Gallery; National Portrait Gallery; Huntington Library, 2002, George Romney, 1734-1802, London
no. 130
ill.

Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., 'Designs from fancy': George Romney's Shakespearean Drawings, 1998
pp. 86, 91 and 205
pl. 53 on p. 88 ...More

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 25 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: lower centre edge, fragment: tip of crown from a Strasburg lily.

Inscription: Recto: lower right, brown ink, signed and dated with artist’s initials: "M.H. 1800". Verso: lower right, graphite: "Mt. Haller".

Collector's mark: none.

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