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Pope Gregory and the slaves from Britain

Maker

(artist)
1829-1896

Title

Pope Gregory and the slaves from Britain

Date of Production

1843

Medium

pen and brown ink on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 20.7 cm
Width: 30.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4438

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






handcuffs

Provenance

D.T. White; his sale, 20 April 1868, no. 355; purchased there by G. Smith; anonymous sale, Christie's (London), 7 December 1945, lot 31 (with 2 others); purchased there by Abbott; E.A. Wilson; purchased from him by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

The Poetry of Drawing - Pre-Raphaelite Designs, Studies and
Watercolours
, Birmingham & England & UK, 29/01/2011-15/05/2011

The Drawings of John Everett Millais, Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, Bolton, 7 July - 4 August 1979, and at four other venues in the UK, 07/04/1979-16/12/1979

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 35

The drawings of John Everett Millais, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1979
no. 4

Pre-Raphaelite Drawing, Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2011
pp. 52-53
fig. 55 on p. 53

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left edge, pen and brown ink, signed and dated: "J.E. Millais 1843".

Collector's mark: none.

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