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Three Roman ladies, seen from the back (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1752-1787

Title

Three Roman ladies, seen from the back (recto)

Date of Production

1775 - 1780

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink, grey wash (recto and verso) on laid paper, the right edge (on recto side) made up

Dimensions

Height: 25.5 cm
Width: 22.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.644

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

William Young Ottley, London (1771-1836); his sale, T. Philipe (London), 6-23 June 1814, 15th day, lot 1616; probably purchased there via Watson by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830); his estate sale, Christie's (London), 17 November 1830, lot 104 (as by John Brown, with the title 'Three Roman Ladies walking, seen in a back view, reverse, a Man seeing his Confessor'); purchased there by Charles Rogers (£1); F.R. Meatyard (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£4, along with D.1952.RW.643); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Painting in Scotland: the Golden Age, London & England, 15/10/1986-04/01/1987

Painting in Scotland: the Golden Age, Edinburgh & Scotland, 08/08/1986-31/08/1986

Neo-Classical Drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, November 1972-December 1972 ...More

Romantic Art in Britain: Paintings and Drawings 1760-1860, Philadelphia & USA, 01/03/1968-01/04/1968

Romantic Art in Britain: Paintings and Drawings 1760-1860, Detroit & USA, 01/01/1968-01/02/1968

Scots in Italy in the 18th Century, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, 1966

The Romantic Movement, Tate Gallery, London and Arts Council Gallery, London, 10/07/1959-27/09/1959

Il Settecento a Roma, Palazzo delle Espozioni, Rome, 19/03/1959-31/05/1959

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

Paintings and drawings by Fuseli, Arts Council, London, 1950

catalogue untraced, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1932

Johann Heinrich Fussli, 1741-1825, Kunsthaus Zurich, 18/07/1926-05/09/1926

A collection of pictures, drawings, furniture and objets d'art, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1924-25 ...Less

Literature

Pressly, Nancy L., The Fuseli Circle in Rome: Early Romantic Art of the 1770s, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979
p. 59

Romantic Art in Britain: Paintings and Drawings 1760-1860, Philadelphia, 1968
cat. no. 79
Illus. repr.

Il Settecento a Roma, Palazzo delle Espozioni, Rome, 1959
cat. no. 105 ...More

Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1958 - 1959
cat. no. 43

The Romantic Movement, Tate Gallery, London and Arts Council Gallery, London, 1959
no. 625

Frederick Antal, Fuseli Studies, London: Routledge & Paul, 1956.
p. 127 n. 5
Illus. pl. 51

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 7

Powell, Nicholas, The Drawings of Henry Fuseli, London, 1951
pl. 63

Paintings and drawings by Fuseli, Arts Council, London, 1950
cat. no. 137

Wilenski, Reginald Howard, English Painting, London: Faber & Faber, 1933.
Illus. pl. 86a

A collection of pictures, drawings, furniture and objets d'art, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1924-1925
cat. no. 201
no. 201
as 'The Three Graces'

Bemrose, William, Wright of Derby, London, 1885.
p. 32 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

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

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner of original sheet, graphite: "55"; lower left corner, graphite: "34". Verso: lower left edge, brown ink, signed by the artist: "J. Brown invt.".

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