Boy seated on a barrel
Maker
(artist)
1785-1841
1785-1841
Title
Boy seated on a barrel
Medium
black and red chalk with stumping, coloured chalks and white bodycolour on brown wove paper
Dimensions
Height: 20.6 cm
Width: 12.8 cm
Width: 12.8 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3238
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), 1 September 1942; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 17 February 1943, for £7; Witt Bequest 1952
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 57
p. 57
Inscriptions
Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)
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