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Man reading to a sleeping audience - 'An Interesting Tale'

Maker

(artist)
1760-1809

Title

Man reading to a sleeping audience - 'An Interesting Tale'

Medium

graphite, brown ink and watercolour on laid paper, framed in brown ink and yellow watercolour

Dimensions

Height: 33.7 cm
Width: 47.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3409

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

unidentified collector, L.2832; Dr Carl Robert Rudolf, London (1884-1974); acquired from him in an exchange by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

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

Literature

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 90
pl. IX

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 59

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: Strasburg lily? Unable to see clearly.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower right corner, stamped in black: unidentified collector (L.2832).

Inscription: Recto: within the drawing, upper left, graphite: “And the Whale went into / Jonas’s belly”; lower left corner, brown ink, signed by the artist: “G.M. Woodward Delin.”; lower centre edge, brown ink, titled by the artist, the middle word underlined: “An Interesting Tale.”.

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