Juggler and audience
Maker
(artist)
1760-1809
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
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
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
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
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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