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Study after the Monument of Lord Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury (d. 1617), Westminster Abbey

Maker

(artist)
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

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.

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).

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