Sketch for a family portrait group
Maker
(artist)
1694-1739
1694-1739
Title
Sketch for a family portrait group
Date of Production
1730
Medium
pen and brown ink on laid paper
Dimensions
Height: 27.1 cm
Width: 19.1 cm
Width: 19.1 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.351
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
Spencer (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 53
p. 53
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: centre: Arms of Amsterdam, with an uncommonly thin central column (no exact match in Churchill or Heawood; Churchill dates the mark in general to about 1635-1796).
Inscription: Jno [the 'o' is superscript] V 1730
Inscription: 34
Inscription: Van de Banck
Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)
Inscription: A H. 11
Inscription: Jno [the 'o' is superscript] V 1730
Inscription: 34
Inscription: Van de Banck
Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)
Inscription: A H. 11
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