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Lioness prowling (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1724-1806

Title

Lioness prowling (recto)

Date of Production

1724 - 1806

Medium

red and black chalk (recto and verso) on laid paper; a strong vertical fold at centre from being formerly folded in half

Dimensions

Height: 21 cm
Width: 30 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3301

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

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

Exhibition History

unnumbered typescript - title was possibly 'A Selection of Drawings from The Witt/Courtauld Collections [as exhibited in 1964 at University of Sussex, Falmer]', Nottingham University, 1966

A Selection of Drawings from The Witt/Courtauld Collections, University of Sussex, Falmer, 1964

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 01/09/1960-01/10/1960 ...More

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

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948 ...Less

Literature

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1960
cat. no. 16

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 49

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. 53 ...More

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 76 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: small lion rampant (no match found in Heawood).

Inscription: none.

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

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