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The Sunday League excursionists at Hastings

Maker

(artist)
1824-1883

Title

The Sunday League excursionists at Hastings

Date of Production

1868

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolour and bodycolour on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 27.6 cm
Width: 37.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4326

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




Sightseers

Provenance

Squire Gallery (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£8.5); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 17

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper left, within the drawing, yellow watercolour: “GOLDEN”; lower left of centre, graphite: inscription now erased and illegible, first letter looks like “M”; lower left corner, grey ink: “5381”. Mount (removed, now in object file), Recto: brown ink: “Sunday League Excursionists after a Sundays improvement at the Seaside ! / Sketched from Life Sept [abraded]th 1868 / Respectfully Dedicated (without permission) to the Committee of the Hastings Branch of the Sunday League.”; graphite: “5381 / R. Doyle”. Mount (removed, now in object file), Verso: left, black ink: “5381 / Richard Doyle”; centre, graphite: “10 1/4 x 14 1/4 / 18 x 22”.

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

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