Circus

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Maker

(artist)
1757-1827

Title

Circus

Date of Production

1757 - 1827

Medium

graphite, pen and brown and grey ink, watercolour on wove paper, laid down on a card support; transmitted light reveals what appears to be a drawing on the verso but support is too thick to see clearly

Dimensions

Height: 14.1 cm
Width: 23 cm

Object Number

D.1952.RW.3716

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

  • Aerialists

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check as card support is too thick.

Inscription: Support (historic), Verso: upper right, graphite, circled: "No. 526". Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower right, graphite: "Thomas Rowlandson / 1756-1827 / The circus".

Collector's mark: none.

Provenance

S. Gould (?); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 16 April 1945; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 21 April 1945, for £20; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 43

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