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Head of a horse

Maker

(artist)
1700-1766

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1769-1859

Title

Head of a horse

Medium

graphite and red chalk on verso of a page of printed text on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 17.8 cm
Width: 15.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.921

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

E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d. (14 shillings, as by Ward); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 59

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: lower right, graphite, signed with artist's initials?:TW.

Inscription: Verso: lower half of page, printed in black, upside down, cut off at left edge, text from a newspaper:Copenhagen, Nov. 11. Our Army is separated. Com- / missions are to be shortly given for raising many new .... They add that King Charles has pass'd the [...] / large his Quarters or to penetrate, as is gi[...] / into the Kingdoms of Valencia and Murcia [...] / Cuenza. (not fully transcribed; Troutman suggested this is a 1711 paper describing the campaign in Roussillon).

Collector's mark: none.

Watermark: none.

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