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Conrad rescues Gulnare (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1741-1825

Title

Conrad rescues Gulnare (recto)

Date of Production

(6 September) 1815

Medium

black chalk (recto and verso) on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 18.7 cm
Width: 18.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3376

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

Susan, Baroness North, London (1797-1884), L.1947; Spink & Son Ltd. (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£9); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Turner and Byron, London & England, 03/06/1992-20/09/1992

Byron: an exhibition to commemorate the 150th anniversary of his death in the Greek War of Liberation, 19 April 1824, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 30/05/1974-25/08/1974

Neo-Classical Drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, November 1972-December 1972

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 20

Schiff, Gert, Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741-1825, Zurich: Verlag Berichthaus, 1973, 2 vols.
no. 1558
dated 1815

Byron: an exhibition to commemorate the 150th anniversary of his death in the Greek War of Liberation, 19 April 1824, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 30 May - 25 August 1974
cat. no. S27
p. 130
ill. on p. 82 ...More

Turner and Byron, Tate Gallery, 1992
no. 15 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right, brown ink over black chalk, located and dated: "P.H. Septr. 6. 15." [i.e. 'Putney Hill']. Verso: lower left, graphite, Witt number: "3376"; lower right, graphite: "#15".

Collector's mark: Verso: lower centre, stamped in black: Baroness Susan North (L.1947); lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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