Interior of a gentleman's club - Thatched House Club, St James
Maker
(artist)
1757-1827
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
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
Keywords
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
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).
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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