Pamela - portrait of a lady seated at a writing table
Maker
(artist)
1819-1909
1819-1909
Title
Pamela - portrait of a lady seated at a writing table
Date of Production
1874
Medium
graphite, pen and brown ink on white laid paper (now brown from light exposure)
Dimensions
Height: 22.7 cm
Width: 18.8 cm
Width: 18.8 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.4500
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
Leonard G. Duke, London (1890-1971); Sir Philip Panton, Bourne End, Buckinghamshire (1877-1950); his estate sale, Christie's (London), 20 April 1951, lot 1 (with 3 others); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) (£5.5); Witt Bequest 1952
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 20
Wallis, Neville (ed.), A Victorian canvas: the memoirs of W.P. Frith, London: Geoffrey Bles, 1957
ill.
p. 20
Wallis, Neville (ed.), A Victorian canvas: the memoirs of W.P. Frith, London: Geoffrey Bles, 1957
ill.
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Recto: lower centre edge, brown ink, underlined, artist's hand: "Pamela."; lower right, brown ink, underlined, signed and dated: "W.P. Frith. 1874.".
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Recto: lower centre edge, brown ink, underlined, artist's hand: "Pamela."; lower right, brown ink, underlined, signed and dated: "W.P. Frith. 1874.".
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