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Pamela - portrait of a lady seated at a writing table

Maker

(artist)
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

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.

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.".

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