Bust portrait of a boy
Maker
Maria Sharples (artist)
1753-1849
1753-1849
Title
Bust portrait of a boy
Date of Production
1768 - 1849
Medium
pastels on paper (media too thick to check if laid or wove and secured at all sides to backboard so unable to lift)
Dimensions
Height: 23.1 cm
Width: 17.8 cm
Width: 17.8 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3693
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
Ford (as written in Colnaghi's stock books - is this Sir Brinsley Ford?); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 26 February 1945; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 7 March 1945 (£8); Witt Bequest 1952
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 46
p. 46
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: unable to check as drawing secured at all sides; none evident in raking light.
Inscription: none.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: none.
Collector's mark: none.
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