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Leopard and cubs

Maker

(artist)
1847-1910

Title

Leopard and cubs

Date of Production

1862 - 1910

Medium

black chalk, brown wash and traces of white bodycolour on buff paper

Dimensions

Height: 35.3 cm
Width: 50.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4048 (MISSING)

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



cubs

Provenance

Sotheby's (London), 4 June 1947, lot 129; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 13 December 1948 (£14); Witt Bequest 1952; noted missing December 2001

Literature

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

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: lower right, signed: "John M Swan".

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