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Three bears in a landscape - study for 'American Bears'

Maker

(artist)
1733-1807

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1798

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink and brown wash, all covered in varnish (now yellowed), on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 19 cm
Width: 28 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.468

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 There is no Witt card and I am unsure if the notes in the file indicating this was purchased from Woolner are accurate or if they are based on the assumption that because nearby drawings (ie 467) were purchased there this was as well; all of the other drawings purchased from Woolner are by Flaxman, so this would be the sole outlier.

Exhibition History

Englische Aquarelle, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie, and China, 1963-64

Literature

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 1963-64, Englische Aquarelle
unpag.

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 23

Taylor, Basil, Animal Painting in England from Barlow to Landseer, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1955.
Illus. pl. 34

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

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

Inscription: Verso: centre, graphite: "3"; lower left, graphite: "7".

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