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Indur lies injured beneath a tree and looks up at the fairy Perizinda - illustration for 'Evenings at Home'

Maker

(artist)
1755-1834

Title

Indur lies injured beneath a tree and looks up at the fairy Perizinda - illustration for 'Evenings at Home'

Date of Production

(circa) 1796

Medium

pen and grey ink, grey wash, details added in graphite and white bodycolour on wove paper, with graphite framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 24.7 cm
Width: 18.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.769

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

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Provenance

Spencer (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 48

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper centre edge, graphite: “Evenings at Home”; within drawing, lower left corner, grey ink: “T. Stothard.”; lower centre margin, graphite: “And looking up, he beheld, on the bough where he had placed the monkey / a beautiful woman-“; lower right edge, graphite: “Transmigrations of Indur-”.

Collector's mark: none.

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