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Portrait of a man

Maker

(artist)
1700-1799

Title

Portrait of a man

Date of Production

1736 - 1737

Medium

black, red and white chalk with stumping, graphite on laid paper, framed in an oval with black chalk, hinged at left edge onto a historic paper support

Dimensions

Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 23.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4309

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

Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 60

Inscriptions

Inscription: D. B. / 1736/7 //

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

Inscription: 4 / L V G //

Inscription: ENGINEER

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