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Man and woman seated in a graveyard

Maker

(artist)
1846-1886

Title

Man and woman seated in a graveyard

Date of Production

1800 - 1899

Medium

pen and black ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 8.9 cm
Width: 11.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3788.2

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

F.A. Drey (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 9

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: within the drawing, left (on gravestones), black ink: "SACKED / TO / Here Lie / the EARTHLY BITS / OF / RANDOLPH CALDECOTT / THE BEAUTIES OF HIS / MIND WERE ONLY / EXCEEDED BY". Verso: entire sheet, black ink, cut off at edges: "[...]mden on Monday + / delivered Len over to Tom / Platt - he did not give / me a receipt for her: but / I am quite sure about it. / How very sad it / is to leave the country + / its pleasant habitants"; left centre edge, graphite: "4A"; lower right of centre edge, encircled: "C 2854". Mount (removed, cut down and now in file): graphite: "14 / Caldecott (Randolph) 1846-1886 / Two figures love making seated on A / Tombstone bearing the Epitaph / here lies the earthly bits of / Randolph Caldecott / spirited Pen drawing. app/H/10/- / #14".

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

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