An alarming threat
Maker
(artist)
1817-1864
1817-1864
Title
An alarming threat
Date of Production
1800 - 1899
Medium
graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolour on light blue wove paper, attached at the corners to a historic support
Dimensions
Height: 21.8 cm
Width: 17.4 cm
Width: 17.4 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3702
Mode of Acquisition
Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Provenance
Appleby Bros (London); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on 28 August 1944; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (lower left), 9 March 1945 (£6); Witt Bequest 1952
Exhibition History
Cartoonists of the British School, East Kent and Folkestone Arts Centre, Folkestone, UK, 16/03/1968-20/04/1968
Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 31
Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 49
p. 31
Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 49
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Collector's mark: Support (historic), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Recto: lower left, pen and brown ink, signed: "John Leech". Support (historic), Recto: upper centre, brown ink, titled: "AN ALARMING THREAT"; lower centre, brown ink: "I'LL JUST TELL YER WHAT IT IS YOU SIR, IF I CATCH / YOU A WINKING AT MY YOUNG GAL ANY MORE; BLOW'D IF I DON'T / PUNCH YER ED_".
Collector's mark: Support (historic), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Recto: lower left, pen and brown ink, signed: "John Leech". Support (historic), Recto: upper centre, brown ink, titled: "AN ALARMING THREAT"; lower centre, brown ink: "I'LL JUST TELL YER WHAT IT IS YOU SIR, IF I CATCH / YOU A WINKING AT MY YOUNG GAL ANY MORE; BLOW'D IF I DON'T / PUNCH YER ED_".
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