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Portrait of Miss Fanny Kemble

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1800-1872

Formerly attributed to
Samuel Lane (artist)
1780-1859

Copy after
(artist)
1769-1830

Title

Portrait of Miss Fanny Kemble

Date of Production

(after) 1829

Medium

graphite and watercolour on wove paper, with pinholes at all four corners

Dimensions

Height: 31 cm
Width: 25 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3698

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

D.R. Nott; purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 1 March 1945; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 9 March 1945, for £6; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Shakespeare in Pictures, Ulster Museum, Belfast, 1964

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 31

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Verso: right lower edge, cut off at bottom: "[...] AN ENGLAND"; Countermark: Verso, right upper edge: "B" (not found in Heawood).

Inscription: Verso: upper left, graphite, erased, Colnaghi number and price: "A 12866 / [illegible]"; upper centre, graphite: "S. Lane".

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

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