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Study for a portrait of a lady (Duchess of Norfolk at Arundel?)

Maker

(artist)
1694-1739

Title

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 32 cm
Width: 19.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.353

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, by January 1926; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 53

Baker, C.H. Collins, 'Some Eighteenth-Century Drawings in the Witt Collection' in 'The Connoisseur', January 1926
p. 3
Illus. no. II

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: lower centre: Strasburg bend and lily (two bands, no letters beneath and no countermarks present; the lily quite short and squat; no exact match in Churchill or Heawood but related marks date late 17th to late 18th centuries).

Inscription: 353

Inscription: 32 [could be 31]

Inscription: Van deBanck

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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