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Sketch for a figure composition

Maker

(artist)
1785-1841

Title

Sketch for a figure composition

Date of Production

1828 - 1841

Medium

pen and brush and brown ink on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 17.9 cm
Width: 13.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1955.WF.4594

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Fund, purchase, 1955 (January)

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Provenance

probably by descent to great-nephew of the artist, also named David Wilkie; purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 10 August 1954; purchased there by the Courtauld Institute via the Witt Fund, 7 January 1955

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 58

Inscriptions

Inscription: A 20428 A

Inscription: G DICKINSON / 1828 //

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