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Group of four female figures (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1818-1875

Title

Group of four female figures (recto)

Date of Production

1818 - 1875

Medium

red chalk on thick wove paper, now quite brown in the pictorial area

Dimensions

Height: 27.2 cm
Width: 24.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3627

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

E. Parsons & Sons (London), 1934, no. 107; Beaux Arts Gallery (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (verso, lower left), n.d.; 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 ...More

catalogue untraced, Churchill Club, London, 1945 ...Less

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 48

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. 52

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 74

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: upper right, black crayon and graphite: “12530/35”; lower right, graphite, mostly abraded and illegible: “[...]32[...]”.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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