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Studies of Spanish figures - a. male dancer, b. male water-carrier, c. young woman playing castanets

Maker

(artist)
1805-1876

Title

Studies of Spanish figures - a. male dancer, b. male water-carrier, c. young woman playing castanets

Date of Production

1832 - 1834

Medium

graphite, black, red and white chalk, watercolour and bodycolour on brown-tinted wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 24.9 cm
Width: 33.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3262

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






Water carriers

Provenance

Puttick & Simpson (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

British Artists in Mediterranean Lands, Lake District Festival, Kendal, 07/07/1960-23/07/1960

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 33

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper right, graphite: "white"; right of centre (below hands of figure on right), graphite: "b / A A"; lower right (within the drawing), brown ink: "Agua!". Verso: lower left corner, graphite: "3392b".

Collector's mark: none.

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