Three Witches from 'Macbeth'
Maker
(artist)
1741-1825
1741-1825
Title
Three Witches from 'Macbeth'
Date of Production
1783
Medium
black chalk and black chalk wash, moistened red chalk, graphite, brown wash, on wove paper, laid down on a support
Dimensions
Height: 25.6 cm
Width: 35.9 cm
Width: 35.9 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.4533
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
Squire (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952
Exhibition History
Courtauld Connects Regional Programme - Radical Drawing, Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, 18/10/2019-19/01/2020
Angelika Kauffmann und ihre Zeitgenossen, Vorarlberger Landesmuseum, Bregenz and Osterreichisches Museum fur angewandte Kunst, Vienna, 23/07/1968-01/02/1969
Shakespeare in Pictures, Ulster Museum, Belfast, 1964 ...More
Englische Aquarelle, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, and China, 1963-64
Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962
Seventy Years of British Painting, London & England, 1960 ...Less
Angelika Kauffmann und ihre Zeitgenossen, Vorarlberger Landesmuseum, Bregenz and Osterreichisches Museum fur angewandte Kunst, Vienna, 23/07/1968-01/02/1969
Shakespeare in Pictures, Ulster Museum, Belfast, 1964 ...More
Englische Aquarelle, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, and China, 1963-64
Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962
Seventy Years of British Painting, London & England, 1960 ...Less
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 21
Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 3
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 1963-64, Englische Aquarelle
unpag. ...More
Exhibition of British water-colour painting during three centuries, China, 1963
no. 19
ill.
Angelika Kauffmann und ihre Zeitgenossen, Vorarlberger Landesmuseum, Bregenz and Osterreichisches Museum fur angewandte Kunst, Vienna, 1968 / 1969
cat. no. 231
no. 231
ill.
Schiff, Gert, Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741-1825, Zurich: Verlag Berichthaus, 1973, 2 vols.
no. 821 ...Less
p. 21
Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 3
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 1963-64, Englische Aquarelle
unpag. ...More
Exhibition of British water-colour painting during three centuries, China, 1963
no. 19
ill.
Angelika Kauffmann und ihre Zeitgenossen, Vorarlberger Landesmuseum, Bregenz and Osterreichisches Museum fur angewandte Kunst, Vienna, 1968 / 1969
cat. no. 231
no. 231
ill.
Schiff, Gert, Johann Heinrich Füssli, 1741-1825, Zurich: Verlag Berichthaus, 1973, 2 vols.
no. 821 ...Less
Inscriptions
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: left centre edge, graphite: 3 lines of text have been cut off with only the last letters still visible, now illegible.
Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: left centre edge, graphite: 3 lines of text have been cut off with only the last letters still visible, now illegible.
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