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Farmer and his dog

Maker

(artist)
1763-1804

Title

Farmer and his dog

Date of Production

1792

Medium

graphite and red chalk on wove paper (now brown likely due to ageing or light exposure), with grey ink framing lines, laid down; the upper edge made up with an extra strip of paper

Dimensions

Height: 34.2 cm
Width: 23.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3935

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

John F. Keane, Cambridge; his sale, Sotheby's (London), 3 December 1947, lot 103; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) (£5); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

George Morland, Reading Museum and Art Gallery; Southampton Art Gallery, 1975

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 35

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left edge, graphite, signed and dated: "G. Morland 1792.".

Collector's mark: none.

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