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Head of a horse

Maker

(artist)
1763-1804

Title

Head of a horse

Date of Production

1763 - 1804

Medium

graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 13 cm
Width: 8.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3535

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

Thomas Agnew & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), possibly in March-April 1944; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

George Morland, Reading Museum and Art Gallery; Southampton Art Gallery, 1975

71st annual exhibition of water-colour drawings, Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 01/03/1944-01/04/1944

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 35

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, upper right corner, fragment: edge of a crowned circle like those seen on Dutch papers such as Vryheyt.

Inscription: Verso: upper right edge, brown ink: "Morland 5.".

Collector's mark: none.

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