Man reading to a sleeping audience - 'An Interesting Tale'
Maker
(artist)
1760-1809
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
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
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.”.
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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