Passenger coach-and-four, travelling at a fast trot
Maker
Charles Cooper Henderson (artist)
1803-1877
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
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
Keywords
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
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
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).
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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