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Punch's puppet shew

Maker

(artist)
1756-1811

Title

Punch's puppet shew

Date of Production

1795

Medium

graphite, red chalk, pen and brown ink, watercolour and bodycolour on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 18.3 cm
Width: 23.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3249

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

Leggatt Bros (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (verso, lower right), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, American Federation of the Arts, Washington, D.C. and nine cities in the USA, 1951

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949 - 1950

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 15

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949-50
no. 18

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: upper right, brown ink: "Punche's Puppet Show / I. Cruikshanks"; centre, graphite: "16 x 13 ¾"; lower right, graphite: "#3".

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

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