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Dinner party

Maker

(artist)
1757-1827

Title

Dinner party

Date of Production

1800 - 1899

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolour on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 12 cm
Width: 20.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4157

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

Christie's (London), 8 April 1949, lot 10; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 21 April 1949 (£20); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 43

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

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

Inscription: Verso: upper centre, graphite: "No 90"; upper right, graphite: "8/-". Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower right, graphite: "Thomas Rowlandson / 1756-1827 / A dinner party. / (Doctor Syntax)".

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