Bird - Columba
Maker
(artist)
1765-1822
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
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
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).
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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