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Lobster pots (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1783-1852

Title

Date of Production

1800 - 1899

Medium

graphite (recto and verso) on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 18.5 cm
Width: 26.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4095

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

M. Bernard (London); purchased there by Colnaghi (London), 29 July 1948 (as a volume of drawings); disassembled and purchased there by various buyers; several resold back to Colnaghi (London) by various owners; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 15 February 1949 (£1); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Turner, Prout, Steer - Three Bequests to the Courtauld Institute
Galleries, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1980

Literature

Turner Prout Steer Three Bequests to the Courtauld Institute of Art, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1980
no. 11 (Prout)

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 38

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: upper right corner, graphite: "x".

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

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