Going to the Derby, 1870
Maker
(artist)
1792-1878
1792-1878
Title
Going to the Derby, 1870
Date of Production
1870
Medium
graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolour on laid paper, laid down on cardboard support, with remnants of glue around edges from a removed mount
Dimensions
Height: 32 cm
Width: 52.7 cm
Width: 52.7 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3515
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
traffic
Provenance
Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952
Exhibition History
unnumbered typescript - title was possibly 'A Selection of Drawings from The Witt/Courtauld Collections [as exhibited in 1964 at University of Sussex, Falmer]', Nottingham University, 1966
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 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
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 15
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. 17
p. 15
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. 17
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: unable to check as is laid down.
Inscription: inscription : signed & dated : recto & lower right : : G.Cruickshank / 1870
Inscription: inscription : printed : mount & lower centre : : GOING TO THE DERBY 1870
Inscription: Recto: within the drawing, on the carriage, brown ink: “EPSOM”; lower right corner, brown ink, signed and dated by the artist: “G. CRUICKSHANK / 1870.”; lower centre margin, brown ink, titled and dated by the artist: “GOING TO THE DERBY. 1870.”. Support (historic), Verso: upper left, graphite: “G. Cruikshank / 1792 – 1878”.
Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: inscription : signed & dated : recto & lower right : : G.Cruickshank / 1870
Inscription: inscription : printed : mount & lower centre : : GOING TO THE DERBY 1870
Inscription: Recto: within the drawing, on the carriage, brown ink: “EPSOM”; lower right corner, brown ink, signed and dated by the artist: “G. CRUICKSHANK / 1870.”; lower centre margin, brown ink, titled and dated by the artist: “GOING TO THE DERBY. 1870.”. Support (historic), Verso: upper left, graphite: “G. Cruikshank / 1792 – 1878”.
Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
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