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Stiff Breeze

Maker

(artist)
1750-1811

Title

Stiff Breeze

Date of Production

1770 - 1811

Medium

graphite, pen and grey, brown and black inks, grey, brown and pink wash, red chalk on laid paper, cut into a circle

Dimensions

Height: 32.1 cm
Height: 31.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4515

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

J.L. Baldwin; Christie's (London), 25 May 1951, lot 39 (as by Gillray); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Henry William Bunbury, 1750-1811, Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Suffolk, England, 26/02/1983-10/04/1983

1776: the British story of the American Revolution, National Maritime Museum, London, 14/04/1976-02/10/1976

Cartoonists of the British School, East Kent and Folkestone Arts Centre, Folkestone, UK, 16/03/1968-20/04/1968

Literature

1776: the British story of the American Revolution, National Maritime Museum, London, 14 April - 2 October 1976, 1976

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 8

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: "J WHATMAN".

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Verso: upper left of centre, black ink: “H. Bunbury. Hail Storm”; right of centre, graphite: “232/39”. Paper (removed from old frame, now in in portfolio from P&D): black ink the third line done with a stencil: “Sell 550-/ / A Stiff Breeze / 4 36 JW / From the Collection of J.L. Baldwin Esqr / By James Gillray / 1757 – 1815.”; lower centre, graphite: “MO/”; left of centre, graphite: “H.”; left, white chalk, last line abraded and hard to read: “G.B / 39 / A […] 5”. Mount (removed, now in portfolio from P&D): graphite, written backwards and then written correctly below: “Circular / Black & Gold / JL Baldwin Esqr”.

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