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Juggler and audience

Maker

(artist)
1760-1809

Title

Juggler and audience

Medium

graphite and watercolour on laid paper, with double brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 28.3 cm
Width: 34.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3545

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







Juggling



Provenance

Leonard G. Duke, London (1890-1971); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 25 January 1944; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 2 May 1944, for £7; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

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. 59

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. 63

Inscriptions

Inscription: G.M. Woodward Delint.

Inscription: A Juggler.

Inscription: 16 1/2 x 15

Inscription: 25/

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

Inscription: J WHATMAN

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