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Girl on a rocking horse, and a boy with a whip

Maker

Sarah Setchel (artist)
1803-1894

Title

Girl on a rocking horse, and a boy with a whip

Date of Production

(circa) 1840 - 1845

Medium

graphite, watercolour and bodycolour, with some gum arabic and scratching out, on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 49 cm
Width: 44.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4325

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




rocking horses

Provenance

Squire Gallery (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 45

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

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

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, graphite, signed by the artist?: “By Sarah Setchell” and in lower right corner, first word difficult to read: “Vida [?] / Roger”. Verso: lower right corner, graphite: “#9”. Mount (removed, now missing but recorded in file): “Sentimental Realism / The Rocking Horse”.

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