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Child asleep in bed

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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.".

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