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Sleeping child

Maker

(artist)
1769-1859

Title

Sleeping child

Medium

chalk (black), wash (grey) on laid paper, laid down on artist's mount with bodycolour (white) and wash borders

Dimensions

Height: 25.9 cm
Width: 31.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3445

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

Leonard G. Duke, London (1890-1971); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 4 January 1944; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 8 January 1944, for £5; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, American Federation of the Arts, Washington, D.C. and nine cities in the USA, 1951

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949 - 1950

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

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 55

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949-50
no. 56

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 81

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: lower centre edge (only visible in raking light due to mount): "J WHATMAN".

Inscription: JW. RA.

Inscription: D390/ James Ward RA 1769-1859 / LGD //

Inscription: Exh. Arts Council. 1948/9 3445 / Exh. by British Council in Canada 1949/50 / Exh. by American Federation of Arts. Washington, at 9 cities in the U.S.A. 1951 / James Ward Coll. L. Duke //

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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