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Catching a little Tartar

Maker

(artist)
1804-1872

Title

Catching a little Tartar

Date of Production

1873

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink, watercolour on laid paper prepared with a blue wash

Dimensions

Height: 12.5 cm
Width: 20.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4556

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 Gallery (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 15

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: upper left corner, fragment of a leaf as of a fleur-de-lis.

Inscription: Recto: lower left, grey ink: "2 / 9 / 2-3 / 2 / 2 3 "; lower left of centre, grey ink: "2-6 12 / 1-2 / 3 6". Verso: across upper 2/3 of sheet, grey ink, artist's hand: "Catching a little Tartar / "So you don't care about donkey-riding Missy. And Why / "Oh I've got a Pony, and ['after' crossed out] one doesn't care about / donkeys after that you know." / ['Oh, I He as a donkey' scratched out] Has a poney got more legs than a donk / Ms Joy (who doesn't like being chaffed). Yes exactly twice / as many as some donkeys that I know of!"; lower centre, graphite: "5151 G N. Crowquill".

Collector's mark: none.

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