Portrait of Miss Fanny Kemble
Maker
Attributed to
(artist)
1800-1872
Formerly attributed to
Samuel Lane (artist)
1780-1859
Copy after
(artist)
1769-1830
(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
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
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).
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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