Child asleep in bed
Maker
(artist)
1757-1827
1757-1827
Title
Child asleep in bed
Date of Production
1757 - 1827
Medium
graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper
Dimensions
Height: 18.5 cm
Width: 16.1 cm
Width: 16.1 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3915
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
Randall Davies (1866-1946); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 11 February 1947, lot 351; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 17 May 1947, for £38; Witt Bequest 1952
Exhibition History
catalogue untraced, Forty Hall, Enfield, 1970
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 43
p. 43
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left lower edge, fragment: top of a Strasburg lily.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Backing sheet, removed, see photo: lower right, graphite Colnaghi price and number: "AL/-/- A14257". Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower right, graphite: "Thomas Rowlandson / 1756-1827 / Randall Davies Coll.".
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Backing sheet, removed, see photo: lower right, graphite Colnaghi price and number: "AL/-/- A14257". Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower right, graphite: "Thomas Rowlandson / 1756-1827 / Randall Davies Coll.".
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