Studies of a staghound and the head of a stag for painting 'The Hunting of Chevy Chase'

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Maker

(artist)
1802-1873

Title

Studies of a staghound and the head of a stag for painting 'The Hunting of Chevy Chase'

Date of Production

1825 - 1826

Medium

black chalk and brown wash with traces of white bodycolour on canvas given a white ground, the top irregularly cut; the central image framed in an oval by painting the outer margins with a brown varnish (?); laid down on a paper support

Dimensions

Height: 42.8 cm
Width: 53.1 cm

Object Number

D.1952.RW.3576

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

  • labels (identifying artifacts)

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: n/a.

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: Support (historic), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert WItt (L.2228b).

Label: Removed and now glued to the modern mount: printed in black ink, filled in in black ink: "N.B. - This Label to be affixed to the back of the frame (not the canvas) of the Picture. / ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS / EXHIBITION OF BRITISH ART, 1934 / Name of Artist Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A / Title of Work Study of Deerhound and Stag's / head / (Please correct if not properly given) / Name and Address / of Owner D.S. MacColl Esq., / 1 Hampstead Way, NW11.".

Provenance

possibly the artist's estate sale, Christie's (London), 8 - 15 May 1874, lot 988; James E. Mathieson; by descent to his nephew, Dugald Sutherland MacColl (1859-1948); his sale, Christie's (London), 9 June 1944, lot 101, purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) (£26.5); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

The Life and Work of Sir Edwin Landseer, R.A., Sheffield, 06/02/1972-12/03/1972
British Art Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 06/01/1934-10/03/1934

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 30
British Art Exhibition: commemorative catalogue, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1934

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