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Figure studies (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1783-1852

Title

Figure studies (recto)

Date of Production

1800 - 1899

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, white and blue bodycolour (recto), graphite (verso) on blue wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 18.1 cm
Width: 26.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4454

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

M. Bernard (London); purchased there by Colnaghi (London), 29 July 1948 (as a volume of drawings); disassembled and purchased there by various buyers; several resold back to Colnaghi (London) by various owners; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 3 November 1950, for £3; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Turner, Prout, Steer - Three Bequests to the Courtauld Institute
Galleries
, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1980

Literature

Turner Prout Steer Three Bequests to the Courtauld Institute of Art, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1980
no. 10 (Prout)

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 38

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Recto: at left centre and again at right centre edge, graphite: "x". Verso: lower right, graphite, circled: "LCG / 8".

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