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Three Witches from 'Macbeth'

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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

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.

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