Four figures
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Image: Courtauld
Image: Courtauld
Maker
(artist)
1816-1893
1816-1893
Title
Four figures
Date of Production
1851-1855
Medium
graphite, watercolour, bodycolour on wove paper, laid down on newsprint and laid down on card
Dimensions
Height: 5.6 cm
Width: 7.1 cm
Width: 7.1 cm
Object Number
D.1952.RW.826.3
Mode of Acquisition
Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952
Credit
Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
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: Secondary support (sandwiched between drawing and backing card, visible via transmitted light): newspaper with some lines legible about “the case” “ Christmas” suggesting it is from the same clipping as that under D.1952.RW.826.3 relating to the trial of Honor and Bridget Stackpole for the murder of James Stackpole. Verso (backing card): centre, inscription erased and now illegible; lower right, graphite: "C". 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".
Collector's mark: Historic inner mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Secondary support (sandwiched between drawing and backing card, visible via transmitted light): newspaper with some lines legible about “the case” “ Christmas” suggesting it is from the same clipping as that under D.1952.RW.826.3 relating to the trial of Honor and Bridget Stackpole for the murder of James Stackpole. Verso (backing card): centre, inscription erased and now illegible; lower right, graphite: "C". 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".
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
p. 36
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