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Study for 'The Landlord's Family'

Maker

(artist)
1755-1834

Title

Date of Production

(before) 1800

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink on 3 pieces of laid paper joined together, squared in graphite with pinholes at every line; not incised for transfer

Dimensions

Height: 20.3 cm
Width: 17.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4336

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

Charles John Halswell Kemeys-Tynte, Lord Wharton (1908-1969); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 3 August 1949; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 11 February 1950, for £8; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 49

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: Recto, left-hand sheet, centre: imperial crown above "GR"; middle sheet, centre: imperial crown above "W" (no matches found though see Heawood 216 - dated 1792 - a Britannia mark which has both the imperial crown over "GR" and a plain "W" as countermarks).

Inscription: Recto: lower right of centre, brown ink: “T. Stothard.”. Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower right, graphite: “Thomas Stothard / 1755-1834 / The Landlord's Family. / Signed T. Stothard. / Engraved CKnight 1835. [the former line erased] Engraved 1800.”.

Collector's mark: none.

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