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Contention - the Younger Pitt and Fox contending for power

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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?

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