Guile - illustration for Punch
Maker
(artist)
1823-1891
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
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
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.
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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