Full length seated left profile view of young girl - Anne Hoare

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Maker

(artist)
1707-1792

Title

Full length seated left profile view of young girl - Anne Hoare

Date of Production

1751 - 1760

Medium

black and red chalk on laid paper; slight red chalk offset on verso is just in the area of Anne's skirt folds - was this executed using a transfer process?

Dimensions

Height: 26.6 cm
Width: 20.2 cm

Object Number

D.1952.RW.3574

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: "IV".

Inscription: Recto: lower left, brown ink, described: "Anne Hoare". Verso: left centre edge, graphite: "3"; lower right, graphite: "#3".

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

Provenance

Paul Wallraf, London (1890-1981); purchased from him by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

William Hoare of Bath R.A. (1707-1792), Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, 03/11/1990-08/12/1990
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
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Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
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Literature

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 39
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. 31
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 27
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William Hoare of Bath, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, 1990
no. 42
ill. on p. 55
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