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Bird - Columba

Maker

(artist)
1765-1822

Title

Bird - Columba

Date of Production

1765 - 1822

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink and watercolour on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 22.7 cm
Width: 17.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3685

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), 15 June 1949; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 3 November 1950, for £4 (along with D.1952.RW.3686, D.1952.RW.4456 and 1 other); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 28

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower centre, graphite: "Columba / unique / Shot nr. Gravesend"; lower right, grey-brown ink, underlined, signed: "Howitt"; lower right corner, graphite, a number, erased and now only "6" is legible; lower right edge, graphite inscription just visible but erased and illegible, even under UV. Verso: upper right, graphite: "16/-".

Stamp: Recto: upper left corner, blindstamped: ACKERMANN / 191 / REGENT STRT [Rudolph Ackermann, a publisher, established at this address in 1825].

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

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