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Portrait of a lady seated on the terrace at Windsor Castle

Maker

(artist)
1769-1821

Title

Portrait of a lady seated on the terrace at Windsor Castle

Date of Production

(June) 1804

Medium

graphite, watercolour on brown paper laid down on historic mount (now very brown with discolouration)

Dimensions

Height: 32.1 cm
Width: 22.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3567

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

Alexander Yakovleff; purchased from him by Colnaghi (London) 25 May 1944; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 6 June 1944, for 240 shillings; 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. 18

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. 22

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to mount.

Collector's mark: Mount (historic), Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Recto: lower right (within drawing), brown ink, signed and dated: "H: Edridge June 1804.". Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower left, graphite: "Exhibited by British Council in Canada 1949/50 / " by American Federation of Arts in 9 cities in the USA 1951"; Lower right, graphite: "Henry Edridge / 1769-1821 / Signed and dated 1804 / Eton Chapel in background. / One of the daughters of George III.".

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