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Two young ladies on a terrace

Maker

(artist)
1759-1833

Title

Two young ladies on a terrace

Date of Production

1800

Medium

none visible, though unable to see clearly as is laid down on board.
black chalk and watercolour on paper, laid down on cardboard, with white residue around the edges from a former mount or frame

Dimensions

Height: 39.5 cm
Width: 40.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3763

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

Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

An Elegant Society: Adam Buck, Artist in the Age of Jane Austen, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 16/07/2015-04/10/2015

Neo-Classical Drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, November 1972-December 1972

Regency Exhibition, Brighton, 1951

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 7

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: within the drawing on the base of the column, black chalk, signed and dated by the artist: "Adam Buck / 1800 London ". Cardboard support, Verso: lower centre, graphite, underlined: “Buck drawing”.

Collector's mark: none.

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