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Portrait heads of three young girls - study for 'The Proposal'

Maker

(artist)
1787-1819

Title

Portrait heads of three young girls - study for 'The Proposal'

Date of Production

1815 - 1819

Medium

black and red chalk on card, laid down on historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 15.9 cm
Width: 16.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3596

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

given to Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 25

Inscriptions

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: lower centre, black ink: "THE PROPOSAL (Lady Blomfield) / by G.H. HARLOW."; lower left corner, black ink: "Study for the painting in the possession of / MRS ROMNEY, KESWICK, CUMBERLAND.". Mount (removed, see photo): lower right, graphite: "George Henry Harlow / 1787-1819 / Study for the Proposal (Lady Blomfield) / The picture is in the possession of / Mrs Romney, Keswick / T.O.".

Collector's mark: none.

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