42nd Highlanders at Waterloo
Maker
(artist)
1775-1831
1775-1831
Title
42nd Highlanders at Waterloo
Date of Production
(circa) 1815
Medium
graphite, pen and grey ink, watercolour on wove paper, laid down on a historic support
Dimensions
Height: 22.3 cm
Width: 31.7 cm
Width: 31.7 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3654
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. Kersley, London (active 1930-1960); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 1 December 1944; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 8 January 1945 (£7.10); 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. 3
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. 2
Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 2
p. 3
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. 2
Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 2
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: lower centre margin, grey ink: "Desperate conflict between the 42nd Highlanders & a large body of French Cuirassiers in which the latter were / totally destroyed.".
Collector's mark: Support (historic), Recto: lower left, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: lower centre margin, grey ink: "Desperate conflict between the 42nd Highlanders & a large body of French Cuirassiers in which the latter were / totally destroyed.".
Collector's mark: Support (historic), Recto: lower left, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
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