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Dog and hares

Maker

Jan Baptist Xavery (artist)
1697-1742

Title

Dog and hares

Medium

black and white chalk with stumping on blue laid paper, with black chalk and black ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 22.2 cm
Width: 30.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4154

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

J.H.J. Mellaert (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£5); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 133

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: lower right, graphite: "40"; lower right, graphite: "3079"; lower right edge, graphite: "#2"; lower right edge, brown ink, a much longer inscription rubbed out: "[...] J.B. Xaverÿ [...]".

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

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