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Miniature portrait of John Joseph Merlin (1735-1803)

Maker

(artist)
1754-1808

Title

Date of Production

1754 - 1808

Medium

graphite, watercolour, pen and brown ink and touches of bodycolour on wove paper, framed in a circle with graphite and grey ink

Dimensions

Height: 8.7 cm
Width: 8.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.899

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

Dr Carl Robert Rudolf, London (1884-1974); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 3 July 1942; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (verso, lower left) 24 July 1942 (£8 per Colnaghi, £6 per Witt card, as 'Portrait of Charles Macklin'); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 46

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: centre, graphite: "Chas Macklin". Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower right, graphite: "Samuel Shelley / 1750-1808 / Portrait of Charles Macklin / (the actor) (1697-1797)".

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

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