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Portrait of a young lady

Maker

(artist)
1713-1784

Title

Portrait of a young lady

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

black and white chalk on blue (now green on the reco) laid paper, all four corners cut

Dimensions

Height: 22.5 cm
Width: 15.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4071

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

no. 141 in an unidentified auction (? see label mounted with the drawing); Thomas Agnew & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

unnumbered typescript - title was possibly 'A Selection of Drawings from The Witt/Courtauld Collections [as exhibited in 1964 at University of Sussex, Falmer]', Nottingham University, 1966

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 40

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Label: Removed from verso of drawing and glued to current mount: printed in black - appears to be from an auction catalogue: "141. A. Ramsay. A Lady.".

Inscription: Support (removed, see photo), Verso: upper left, upside down, graphite, hard to read: "Overmt / #2". Outer Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower right, graphite: "Allan Ramsay / 1713 - 1784. / Ellis Waterhouse confirms attribution". Inner mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower centre, graphite: "8 1/2 x 5 5/8"; lower right, graphite, the second line abraded: "#2 / D 782 [?]".

Collector's mark: Removed and adhered to handling edges: stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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