Portrait head of an elderly woman in a bonnet
Maker
(artist)
1752-1787
1752-1787
Title
Portrait head of an elderly woman in a bonnet
Medium
graphite with stumping on laid paper (face seems flat - possibly an offset?)
Dimensions
Height: 49 cm
Width: 35.2 cm
Width: 35.2 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3325
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
Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£7); 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
Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948 ...More
catalogue untraced, Churchill Club, London, 1945 ...Less
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 ...More
catalogue untraced, Churchill Club, London, 1945 ...Less
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 7
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. 5
Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 5
p. 7
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. 5
Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 5
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: centre: crowned fleur-de-lis in a shield above "GR".
Label: Verso: lower right edge, graphite: "Cream".
Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Label: Verso: lower right edge, graphite: "Cream".
Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
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