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Study of a man's hand

Maker

(artist)
1694-1739

Title

Study of a man's hand

Medium

black and white chalk on brown laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 39.5 cm
Width: 25.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.915

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

Thomas Hudson, London (1701-1779), L.2432; possibly his estate sale, Langford (Covent Garden), 15-27 March 1779, first night, lot 7 (twenty studies by Vanderbank), or second night, lots 1 (thirty sketches by Vanderbank) or 2 (forty ditto); E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, before January 1926 (£1.5); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Exhibition of Stuart Drawings, Red Lodge, Bristol, 12/06/1952-12/07/1952

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943

catalogue untraced, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1932 ...More

catalogue untraced, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1924 ...Less

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 53

Grigson, Geoffrey, English drawings from Samuel Cooper to Gwen John, London, Thames and Hudson, 1955
no. 11
Illus. repr.

Exhibition of Stuart Drawings, Red Lodge, Bristol, 1952
cat. no. 53 ...More

Woodward, John O., Tudor and Stuart Drawings, London: Faber and Faber, 1951

Baker, C.H. Collins, 'Some Eighteenth-Century Drawings in the Witt Collection' in 'The Connoisseur', January 1926
p. 3
Illus. no. I ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, centre: a crowned coat-of-arms containing letters: "CAR / REX" (see tracing in object file; not found in Churchill or Heawood but appears online in 18th-century drawings by artists like Lancret and Gravelot).

Inscription: Jno [the 'o' superscript] V

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left, stamped in black: Sir Thomas Hudson (L.2432).

Inscription: 915 / V.D.Banck //

Inscription: Illustrated in Connoisseur 1926 / " " Tudor & Stuart Drawings. Woodward. 1951 / Exhibited. Burlington Fine Arts Club 1924-5 / " Ashmolean Museum Oxford 1932 / " V&A 1943 / " Bristol 1952 / P / 915 //

Inscription: John van der Banck / Signed / Coll. Thomas Hudson //

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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