Contention - the Younger Pitt and Fox contending for power
Maker
(artist)
1760-1809
1760-1809
Title
Contention - the Younger Pitt and Fox contending for power
Medium
graphite, pen and ink (brown), watercolour on laid paper, laid down on a paper mount with brown ink framing lines
Dimensions
Height: 16.6 cm
Width: 23 cm
Width: 23 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3363
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
Tug of war
Provenance
Leonard G. Duke, London (1890-1971); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 10 November 1943; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 29 November 1943, for £2; Witt Bequest 1952
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 59
p. 59
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: lower centre edge, fragment: upper loop of a Strasburg lily.
Inscription: Absalom MY SON! MY SON!
Inscription: Contention
Inscription: D1118/ G.M. Woodward 1760(?) - 1809. / LGD //
Inscription: 2
Inscription: Verso (hidden under mount, visible via transmitted light though obscured): left centre, brown ink: "people every St[...]? / Run [...] Furnace! / Macr[...] [...]th / St[...] out of / human"; other ink inscriptions at upper left edge, right centre and lower right are not legible.
Inscription: Bombay Bengal Madras
Inscription: PATREM SEQUITUR PASSIBUS AQUIS
Inscription: JUSTICE PAR TOUT
Inscription: NAME IT NOT TO YOU YE CHAST STARS
Inscription: POWER
Inscription: SECRET OF COALITION / LORD N. / Caissette vertu //
Inscription: GM. Woodward.
Inscription: P. Wales L. North Fox Pit_2d. King III Thurlow
Inscription: Tantane animis Celestibus Irae?
Inscription: Absalom MY SON! MY SON!
Inscription: Contention
Inscription: D1118/ G.M. Woodward 1760(?) - 1809. / LGD //
Inscription: 2
Inscription: Verso (hidden under mount, visible via transmitted light though obscured): left centre, brown ink: "people every St[...]? / Run [...] Furnace! / Macr[...] [...]th / St[...] out of / human"; other ink inscriptions at upper left edge, right centre and lower right are not legible.
Inscription: Bombay Bengal Madras
Inscription: PATREM SEQUITUR PASSIBUS AQUIS
Inscription: JUSTICE PAR TOUT
Inscription: NAME IT NOT TO YOU YE CHAST STARS
Inscription: POWER
Inscription: SECRET OF COALITION / LORD N. / Caissette vertu //
Inscription: GM. Woodward.
Inscription: P. Wales L. North Fox Pit_2d. King III Thurlow
Inscription: Tantane animis Celestibus Irae?
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