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Young man, seated, holding a riding crop

Maker

(artist)
1725-1809

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1708-1776

Title

Young man, seated, holding a riding crop

Date of Production

(circa) 1754

Medium

red and black chalk on brown-prepared laid paper, the upper corners cut, laid down on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 21.1 cm
Width: 15.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.968

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

F.R. Meatyard (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, by 1935 (£4.2); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962

A collection of pictures, drawings, furniture and objets d'art, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1924-25

?, Vienna, 1924-25

Literature

Razzall, Rosie, 'Sandby copying Gainsborough: sharing, sociability, and self-fashioning' in 'Master Drawings', Summer 2020 - pp. 226-46; vol. 58, no. 2
p. 239
Fig. 24 on p. 239

Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 12

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 45 ...More

Witt, Robert, 'Some Old Master Drawings of the English School' in 'The Antique Collector', December 1935
as by Hayman ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left of centre: line of small text but unable to read clearly.

Inscription: Recto: lower right, graphite, very faint and mostly visible only as incised lines with raking light, a false signature or erroneous attribution: "F. Hayman.". Mount (historic), Recto: lower left, brown ink: "F. Hayman, 1708-1776.".

Collector's mark: Mount (historic), Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black and gone over in pen and grey ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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