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Horses on a race course - the start at Epsom

Maker

(artist)
1765-1822

Title

Horses on a race course - the start at Epsom

Date of Production

(before) 1803

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink, watercolour on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 27.2 cm
Width: 38 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3765

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





horse racetracks




Provenance

Horace Bernard Milling, London (1898-1954); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 11 June 1945; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 17 September 1945 (£27); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, American Federation of the Arts, Washington, D.C. and nine cities in the USA, 1951

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949 - 1950

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. 28

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949-50
no. 33

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 41

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: lower right, graphite: "C / 4410 / Samuel Howitt / "The Start" at Epsom / original drawing for the engra[cut off] / F/ / AA"; lower right, graphite, Colnaghi number: "A13093".

Collector's mark: none.

Label: Handwritten in pencil: Accession no., artist, title, exhibitions [Detached from old mount, now kept separately from file.]

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