Stiff Breeze
Maker
(artist)
1750-1811
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
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
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
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”.
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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