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Guile - illustration for Punch

Maker

(artist)
1823-1891

Title

Guile - illustration for Punch

Date of Production

1873

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink on laid paper, inlaid into paper borders

Dimensions

Height: 11 cm
Width: 17.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3806

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

Doreen Geraldine Knatchbull (née Browne), Lady Brabourne (1896-1979); her sale, Christie's (London), 25 January 1946, lot 18 (with two others); purchased there by Colnaghi (London), on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) (£27.6); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Cartoonists of the British School, East Kent and Folkestone Arts Centre, Folkestone, UK, 16/03/1968-20/04/1968

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 29

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: none in the drawing sheet. Caption paper (mounted with the drawing): centre, other letters cut off by upper and lower edges: "NO[...]" (unable to find match in Heawood).

Inscription: Borders (historic), Recto: graphite, written at lower left but trimmed away so repeated at lower right: “Punch 1 Feb. 1873". Caption on separate paper (inlaid into a paper support and now mounted to new support below drawing), Recto: graphite: "Guile - / Old Lady . "You know the Royal Oak?" / Will you turn to the right past the / 'Jolly Gardeners' 'till you come to the / Red Lion"_ / Artful Cabby. "Ok! don't talk to / me of the 'ouses, Mum!". Continuation on separate paper (on old support, now mounted to new mount below drawing),Verso: graphite: "name some of the churches and / then I shall know where I am!!" / [asks and gets an exorbitant / fare without a murmur.". Support for caption (historic), Recto: lower right, graphite: "11 10 ¾"; lower right, graphite: "#2".

Collector's mark: none.

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