Bust length profile view to left of Dr Rice Charlton of Bath
Maker
(artist)
1707-1792
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
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
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.".
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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