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Boy in a high top-hat (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1872-1956

Title

Boy in a high top-hat (recto)

Date of Production

(circa) 1892

Medium

pen and black ink on laid paper (recto and verso)

Dimensions

Height: 26.2 cm
Width: 17.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4083

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

© The Estate of Max Beerbohm

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords




Provenance

Hans M. Calmann, London (1899-1982); purchased from him by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Cartoonists of the British School, East Kent and Folkestone Arts Centre, Folkestone, UK, 16/03/1968-20/04/1968

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 6

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: right, pen and ink: "max".

Collector's mark: none.

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