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Interior of a gentleman's club - Thatched House Club, St James

Maker

(artist)
1757-1827

Title

Interior of a gentleman's club - Thatched House Club, St James

Date of Production

1811

Medium

graphite, pen and grey and brown ink, watercolour on wove paper (now discoloured brown)

Dimensions

Height: 15 cm
Width: 21.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3235

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

O. Alexander (?); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 13 January 1943; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 17 February 1943, for £18; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

catalogue untraced, Forty Hall, Enfield, 1970

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 43

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper left on left side of mantle (within drawing), grey ink: "ROUGE + NOIR / and Harand played / every night"; on right side of mantle (within drawing), grey ink: "RULES / AT 77- / St. James's / Street"; lower left edge, brown ink, signed and dated: "Rowlandson 1811-". Verso: upper left, graphite, circled: "16"; centre, graphite: "Thatch-house Club, St. James's"; lower left, graphite: "601.B"; lower right, graphite: "K"; lower right corner, graphite: "15". Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower right, graphite: "Thomas Rowlandson / 1756-1827 / Signed. Rowlandson 1811 / Thatched House Club, St James / 'formerly Thatched Roof Tavern' / Sabine Plate 76.".

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

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