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Pair of bustards with a gathering of other birds

Maker

(artist)
1622-1702

Title

Pair of bustards with a gathering of other birds

Date of Production

(circa) 1654

Medium

pen and grey ink, grey wash on laid paper, incised for transfer, with areas of green wash likely accidentally transferred from an adjacent sheet

Dimensions

Height: 13 cm
Width: 18.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3506.2

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

an anonymous eighteenth-century collection; sale of that collection, Sotheby's (London), 2 February 1944, lot 108; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) (£7); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Flis, Nathan, From the life: the art of Francis Barlow (c.1626-1704), PhD thesis, University of Oxford 2012, available online: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3805d2ad-18b5-4f23-a73d-e720a44107de
pp. 9n25, 120
fig. 61
dated c. 1654

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 4

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: crescent moon atop a large pot, not found in Heawood but of a similar type and size to 3601 - England, 17th century).

Inscription: Verso: lower centre, graphite: "Barlow / 8 / 1".

Collector's mark: none.

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