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Passenger coach-and-four, travelling at a fast trot

Maker

Charles Cooper Henderson (artist)
1803-1877

Title

Passenger coach-and-four, travelling at a fast trot

Date of Production

(circa) 1837

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolour, white, blue and red bodycolour and black paint on paper, laid down on a cardboard support which has brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 37 cm
Width: 53.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3597

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, Sotheby's (London), 28 June 1944, lot 14; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) (£17); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 17 July 1944 (£22, in part exchange for Sandby and Wigstead drawings); 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. 26

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. 29

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 36

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check as is laid down.

Inscription: Recto: centre right, on coach, white bodycolour, royal monogram: “CG”; lower right corner, grey-brown wash, signed by the artist: “CCHenderson”. Support (historic), Verso: lower left, graphite: “13864”; lower centre, graphite, framed with two lines: “P18036J”.

Collector's mark: Removed from a former mount or support and now mounted with the drawing, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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