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Portrait sketch of a man wearing a pince-nez (Sir Henry Irving?)

Maker

(artist)
1864-1903

Title

Portrait sketch of a man wearing a pince-nez (Sir Henry Irving?)

Date of Production

1864 - 1903

Medium

graphite on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 17.8 cm
Width: 10.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3787.1

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

pince-nez



Provenance

F.A. Drey (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952),L.2228b (verso, lower left), n.d. (with D.1952.RW.3787.2); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

A Century of Postcards and their background, 1840-1940, Foyle's Art Gallery, Londo, 1959 (December)

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 34

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right, graphite, signed with the last letters in monogram, underlined: "Phil WM".

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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