Two bears, one seated and one sleeping
Maker
(artist)
1733-1807
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
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
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
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".
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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