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Head of a polar bear

Maker

(artist)
1847-1910

Title

Head of a polar bear

Date of Production

1847 - 1910

Medium

black and white chalk with stumping on brown wove paper; upper edge evenly jagged as torn from a pad

Dimensions

Height: 38.7 cm
Width: 27.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4030

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

Beaux Arts Gallery (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (verso), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 49

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left, graphite: an arrow pointing up; lower right corner, graphite: “#12”. Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower right, graphite: “John Macallan Swan. / British- 1847-1910 / Polar Bear”.

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

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