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Girl feeding chickens (recto)
Sketch of a doorway (verso)

Maker

(artist)
1825-1899

Title

Girl feeding chickens (recto)
Sketch of a doorway (verso)

Date of Production

1840 - 1899

Medium

graphite (recto and verso) on card

Dimensions

Height: 14.4 cm
Width: 10.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4478.1

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

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Provenance

E. Martin; purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 14 December 1950; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 6 February 1951 (£12, along with D.1952.RW.4478.2-.4); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 20

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: none.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Recto: lower right, graphite, signed with monogram: "BF". Verso: upper centre, graphite: "1"; lower right, graphite, cut off at right edge: "Scene fr[...]"; lower right corner, graphite, Colnaghi number: "A.17918".

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