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Concert at Montagu House

Maker

(artist)
1679-1772

Title

Concert at Montagu House

Date of Production

1735

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink, grey wash on laid paper, with graphite framing lines, laid down on modern backing (needed as support for several large cracks in the sheet)

Dimensions

Height: 39.3 cm
Width: 28.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3256

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

Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (Edith?); purchased from her by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (lower left), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

The Music Party, Handel House & London & England, 07/09/2011-27/11/2011

The Music Party, Boughton House & Northampton & England, 11/06/2011-01/09/2011

Paintings and Drawings by Marcellus Laroon, Tate Gallery, London, 01/07/1967-30/07/1967 ...More

Paintings and Drawings by Marcellus Laroon, Aldeburgh Festival, 03/06/1967-25/06/1967

Anthology of British Portraits, Swansea, 1961

Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1958-59

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London; York City Art Gallery; Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953

Three Centuries of British Watercolours and Drawings, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1951

Marcellus Laroon, Blairman Gallery, London, 1951

catalogue untraced, Churchill Club, London, 1945

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943 ...Less

Literature

Ribiero, Aileen and Valerie Cumming, The Visual History of Costume, London, Batsford, 1989
no. 102
ill. on p. 139

Raines, Robert, Marcellus Laroon, London and New York, 1967
no. 53
pl. 22

Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1958 - 1959
cat. no. 67 ...More

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 30

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London, York City Art Gallery and Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953
cat. no. 20

Three Centuries of British Watercolours and Drawings, Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1951
cat. no. 103

Thieme Becker, Kunstler Lexikon
p. 390 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: Strasburg bend above letters "L V G" (matches Heawood 102 - dated c. 1772 - though distance between chain lines on the sheet is narrower).

Inscription: Recto: lower right, grey ink, signed and dated: "Mar: Laroon. Fecit. 1735.".

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

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