Study after the Monument of Lord Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury (d. 1617), Westminster Abbey
Maker
(artist)
1802-1828
1802-1828
Title
Study after the Monument of Lord Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury (d. 1617), Westminster Abbey
Date of Production
1825
Medium
graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolour on wove paper
Dimensions
Height: 14.7 cm
Width: 14.2 cm
Width: 14.2 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.4425
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
artist's estate sale, 1829, with lot 64, as 'Spirited sketches of ancient tombs, some tinted'; purchased there by Edward Vernon Utterson (1777-1856); his sale, Christie's (London), 24 February 1857, lot 380; 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. 6
Noon, Patrick, Richard Parkes Bonington: The Complete Paintings, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
no. 314
ill.
p. 6
Noon, Patrick, Richard Parkes Bonington: The Complete Paintings, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008.
no. 314
ill.
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Inscription: Recto: upper left corner and lower right corner, both graphite: erased and now illegible. Verso: upper right, graphite: "5"; graphite: "5 & 583C / R.P.Bonington / C/NE / gez (?)".
Collector's mark: Verso: lower left, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Recto: upper left corner and lower right corner, both graphite: erased and now illegible. Verso: upper right, graphite: "5"; graphite: "5 & 583C / R.P.Bonington / C/NE / gez (?)".
Collector's mark: Verso: lower left, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
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