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Study for 'Cupid in a shell'
Maker
1787-1849
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Date of Production
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Dimensions
Width: 15.2 cm
Accession Number
Mode of Acquisition
Credit
Copyright
Location
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Provenance
Exhibition History
L'Aquarelle Romantique en France et en Angleterre, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Calais, 29/07/1961-17/09/1961
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
p. 46
Etty and the Nude, Rye Art Gallery, 1974
cat. no. 1
ill.
L'Aquarelle Romantique en France et en Angleterre, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Calais, 1961
cat. no. 41 ...More
Farr, Dennis, William Etty, London 1958
no. 51
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 18
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. 7
Gaunt, William and F. Gordon Roe, Etty and the nude: the art and life of William Etty, R.A., 1787-1849, Leigh-on-Sea 1943
pl. 53
Gilchrist, Alexander, Life of William Etty, R.A., London 1855
vol. II, p. 110 ...Less
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: upper left corner, graphite, signed: “Etty”. Support (historic), Recto: lower right, graphite, Witt number: “3859”. Mount (removed, cut down, now in object file): graphite: “Etty / A painting of a similar / composition, reversed / in the Art Coll Princeton USA / 3859, 3860”.
Collector's mark: none.
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