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Mule in harness

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1802-1873

Title

Mule in harness

Date of Production

1800 - 1899

Medium

graphite, watercolour on wove paper, laid down on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 24.1 cm
Width: 29.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3801

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

Beaux-Arts Gallery (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

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. 30

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 46

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: lower centre margin, first line in brown ink, second in graphite: "SIR EDWIN LANDSEER R.A. / 1802-1873". Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower left, graphite, circled: "14"; lower left, graphite: "Exhib. Arts Council. 1948/9".

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