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Shop scene

Maker

(artist)
1864-1903

Title

Shop scene

Date of Production

1894

Medium

graphite, pen and black ink on card

Dimensions

Height: 28.6 cm
Width: 21.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3820

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






grocery stores




Provenance

Sotheby's (London), 18 April 1946, lot 75 or 85 (with D.1952.RW.3821); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (lower left); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

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

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London; York City Art Gallery; Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953

Literature

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

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London, York City Art Gallery and Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953
cat. no. 29

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper right and centre (within drawing), black ink: "TEA COFFEE / HUDSONS / BLUE / POWDER"; centre (on desk), black ink: "YARMOUTH BLOATERS / ACCOUNT BOOK"; lower left, pen and black ink, signed and dated: "PHIL MAY 94."; lower right, black ink over graphite, caption: "Penny addick" / "FINEN?" / "NO FICK UN.". Verso: centre, blue crayon: "Please return to / Phil May / c/o M. Harry Thompson / 7 Rue Lemaitre / Puteaut / Paris"; left centre edge, graphite: "10 1/8 x 7 1/2 / 7 1/2 7 / 17 5/8 14 ½"; lower left, graphite, circled, large: "73".

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

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