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The Bankrupt

Maker

(artist)
1760-1809

Title

The Bankrupt

Medium

watercolour on laid paper, laid down on a card support

Dimensions

Height: 25.3 cm
Width: 15.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4328

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

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

Exhibition History

Cartoonists of the British School, East Kent and Folkestone Arts Centre, Folkestone, UK, 16/03/1968-20/04/1968

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 59

Hayes, John, Rowlandson: Watercolours and Drawings, London, 1972
p. 48
fig. 45 on p. 48

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Resolv'd to visit no more watering places / this summer, - that being last year the / principal occasion of my Bankruptcy. //

Inscription: 1

Inscription: 5466 A D / G.M. Woodward //

Inscription: open w

Inscription: #5

Inscription: A[...] simple

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

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