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Farmers raking

Maker

(artist)
1816-1893

Title

Farmers raking

Date of Production

1851-1855

Medium

pen and brown ink, watercolour, bodycolour on brown-prepared wove paper, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 6.4 cm
Width: 13.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.826.2

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Provenance

Brighton (as recorded by Witt, no further clue to his identity); purchased from him by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (mount, now removed), n.d. (8 shillings for D.1952.RW.826.1-.9 together); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 36

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: Historic inner mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Verso (backing sheet): left edge, graphite, written messily: "2 nb1"; lower right edge, graphite: "B". Historic inner mount (removed, see photo), Recto: one letter under each drawing, graphite: "A B C / D E F / G H I"; lower left, graphite: "D. A, F, - from same sheet / B, H, " " " / E, G, " " " / C, I " " "". Historic outer mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower left, graphite: "826 A–I"; lower right, graphite: "Richard Henry Nibbs / c. 1816–1893".

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