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Bust length profile view to left of Dr Rice Charlton of Bath

Maker

(artist)
1707-1792

Title

Bust length profile view to left of Dr Rice Charlton of Bath

Date of Production

1755

Medium

black and red chalk on laid paper (now quite discoloured in the pictorial area), laid down on Japanese tissue

Dimensions

Height: 20 cm
Width: 15.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.733

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

Reverend Dr Henry Wellesley, Oxford (1791-1866) [according to the Witt card; not listed in Wellesley's June 1862 or 1866 sales]; anonymous sale, Christie’s (London), 28 April 1919, lot 37; purchased there by Pawsey and Payne (London); Sotheby's (London), 27-28 June 1922, lot 88 [clipping in file]; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) (£10.5); Witt Bequest 1952 See Long Description for notes.

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 27

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Label: Removed, now in object file, pen and black ink: "DR. RICE CHARLETON 1710-1789. / PHYSICIAN AT THE BATH HOSPITAL 1757-1781 / BY WILLIAM HOARE R.A. 1706-1792: of BATH. / Pencil drawing heightened with colour signed + dated 1755".

Inscription: Recto: lower right, black chalk, signed and dated: "W. Hoare dt. 1755"; lower left, black chalk, described: "Dr Charlton.".

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