Margaret of Anjou wooed by the Duke of Suffolk - design for Macklin's Shakespeare Gallery
Maker
(artist)
1755-1834
1755-1834
Title
Margaret of Anjou wooed by the Duke of Suffolk - design for Macklin's Shakespeare Gallery
Date of Production
(circa) 1784
Medium
graphite, pen and grey ink, grey wash and watercolour on wove paper, cut into a circle using a compass (pinhole at centre), with double grey ink framing lines; paper now very browned, and texture on both recto and verso suggests it was previously laid down on a type of canvas weave; not incised for transfer
Dimensions
Height: 30.7 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3519
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
Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952
Exhibition History
Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 49
Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 75
p. 49
Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 75
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Inscription: none.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: none.
Collector's mark: none.
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