Galloping horse and rider
Maker
(artist)
1702-1752
1702-1752
Title
Galloping horse and rider
Date of Production
1702 - 1752
Medium
graphite and red chalk on laid paper
Dimensions
Height: 17 cm
Width: 23.2 cm
Width: 23.2 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3447
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
John Heywood Hawkins, Bignor Park, Sussex (1802/3-1877); by descent to Mrs Heywood Johnstone; her estate sale, Christie's (London), 20 February 1925, lot 40 (as part of a 'Scrapbook'); purchased there by F.R. Meatyard (London) (£13); 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 (£5); Witt Bequest 1952
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 46
Taylor, Basil, Animal Painting in England from Barlow to Landseer, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1955.
p. 62
pl. 17
p. 46
Taylor, Basil, Animal Painting in England from Barlow to Landseer, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1955.
p. 62
pl. 17
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: centre: small imperial crown above “GR” (like a Pro Patria countermark).
Inscription: Mount (removed, in portfolio from P&D), Recto: upper right, graphite, Duke’s inv. no.: "D957/85"; Verso: centre, graphite: “By James Seymour 1702-1752 / This is one of a collection of Seymour’s drawings studied by Walter Shaw Sparrow Esq in the “Field” of 30th April 1925. / James Dallaway (1826), the historian of Sussex, found the drawings in the collection of J. Hawkins Esq. at Bignor Park, Sussex. / On the death of Mrs. Heywood Johnstone of Bignor Park the collection was rediscovered at an old house belonging to her at / Pulborough and was sold by order of her executors at Christie’s, 20th February, 1928." [the sale at Christie’s was in 1925, not 1928 as inscribed here].
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Mount (removed, in portfolio from P&D), Recto: upper right, graphite, Duke’s inv. no.: "D957/85"; Verso: centre, graphite: “By James Seymour 1702-1752 / This is one of a collection of Seymour’s drawings studied by Walter Shaw Sparrow Esq in the “Field” of 30th April 1925. / James Dallaway (1826), the historian of Sussex, found the drawings in the collection of J. Hawkins Esq. at Bignor Park, Sussex. / On the death of Mrs. Heywood Johnstone of Bignor Park the collection was rediscovered at an old house belonging to her at / Pulborough and was sold by order of her executors at Christie’s, 20th February, 1928." [the sale at Christie’s was in 1925, not 1928 as inscribed here].
Collector's mark: none.
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