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Going to the Derby, 1870

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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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

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

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).

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