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Figures soaring in a half circle

Maker

(artist)
1755-1826

Title

Date of Production

1770 - 1826

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink, grey wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 22.5 cm
Width: 24.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.467

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

Thomas Woolner (1825-1892); purchased from his heirs? by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (6 shillings); Witt Bequest 1952 Note in the file says Witt purchased this group of Flaxman drawings (D.1952.RW.467, 471 and 473-478) from Woolner; on Modes he was identified as Thomas Woolner, although his death in 1892 would make this a very early purchase for Witt, as we otherwise only have records of him purchasing from the early 1920s. Woolner had two sons, only one of whom survived childhood, named Hugh - could Witt have purchased this drawing from him? A drawing in the BM (1954,0610.16) is listed as belonging to Thomas Woolner’s daughters, and D.2007.DS.41 was purchased from a ‘Mrs Woolner’ by Agnew’s in 1908.

Exhibition History

Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1958-59

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London; York City Art Gallery; Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953

Meisterwerke englischer Malerei aus drei Jahrhunderten, Vienna, 1927

Literature

Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1958 - 1959
cat. no. 40

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 19

Drawings from the Witt Collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art, St James's Square, London, York City Art Gallery and Peterborough Art Gallery, 1953
cat. no. 8

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, upper right, fragment: edge of a large circle, too unclear to identify.

Inscription: Recto: upper left corner, graphite: “H”; lower left corner, graphite: “P”; lower centre edge, graphite, faint and unclear: “Flaxman [?]”. Verso: right centre, graphite: “Flaxman”; lower left corner, blue crayon: “5” or “3” upside down.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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