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Seated female nude with one hand outstretched and the other on the back of her neck

Maker

(artist)
1810-1877

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1787-1849

Title

Seated female nude with one hand outstretched and the other on the back of her neck

Date of Production

1800 - 1899

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolour on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 11.6 cm
Width: 8.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.736

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

discovered in a Victorian scrapbook; Brook Street Galleries (London), 31 October - 19 November 1938, no. 17; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) (£9.45); Witt Bequest 1952 The Brook Street catalogue says all of the drawings in the show were ‘discovered in an old scrap-book of Victorian days’ but doesn’t say when, where or by whom.

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 20

William Etty R.A.: (1787-1849), Brook Street Galleries, London, 1938
no. 17

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Verso: upper right corner, graphite: "a".

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