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Three studies of the arms of a woman

Maker

(artist)
1785-1841

Title

Three studies of the arms of a woman

Date of Production

(30 May) 1814

Medium

black and red chalk on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 22.1 cm
Width: 28.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3591

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

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Provenance

anonymous sale, Christie's (London), 23 June 1944, lot 101 (with D.1952.RW.3590); purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 26 June 1944 (£16.16s for both); 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 from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 57

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. 60

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 88

Inscriptions

Inscription: DW / May 30 / 1814 //

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

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