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Female nude and a swan

Maker

(artist)
1787-1849

Title

Female nude and a swan

Date of Production

(circa) 1840

Medium

black, red and white chalk on paper laid down on a cardboard support with notches cut around the edges, in a Witt mount

Dimensions

Height: 60.2 cm
Width: 44.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3226

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

Walker’s Galleries (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, probably around July 1943 (£10); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Etty and the Nude, Rye Art Gallery, 01/06/1974-13/07/1974

Winter exhibition, Suffolk Street, 1943-44

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 18

Farr, Dennis, William Etty, London 1958
no. 322

Etty and the Nude, Rye Art Gallery, 1974
cat. no. 19
ill.

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check as is laid down.

Collector's mark: Support, Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Witt Mount, Recto of front cover: lower left corner, graphite, Witt number: “D.1952.RW.3226” and “Exh. R.B.A. Suffolk St. 1943-4”; lower right corner, graphite: “William Etty / 1787-1849”. Witt Mount, Verso of front cover: upper right corner, graphite: “# #3”.

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