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Two bears, one seated and one sleeping

Maker

(artist)
1733-1807

Title

Two bears, one seated and one sleeping

Date of Production

(circa) 1780

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watercolour on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 27.4 cm
Width: 34.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.751

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

Edward Foster & Son (London), 25 January 1939, lot 48; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Mary Helene Marten, Lady Witt (active c. 1899-1944),19 December 1939 (£5); her husband, Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

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

Seventy Years of British Painting, London & England, 1960

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, American Federation of the Arts, Washington, D.C. and nine cities in the USA, 1951 ...More

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949 - 1950

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943 ...Less

Literature

Exhibition of British water-colour painting during three centuries, China, 1963
no. 17

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

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

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949-50
no. 27

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 32 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: upper centre edge, fragment: upper half of a Strasburg lily.

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

Inscription: Recto: lower right, brown ink: "SGilpin".

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