Sketch for a figure composition
Maker
(artist)
1785-1841
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
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
p. 58
Inscriptions
Inscription: A 20428 A
Inscription: G DICKINSON / 1828 //
Inscription: G DICKINSON / 1828 //
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