Sketch of a procession and Paolo's appearance on horseback - illustration to Leigh Hunt's 'The Story of Rimini'
Maker
(artist)
1786-1846
1786-1846
Title
Sketch of a procession and Paolo's appearance on horseback - illustration to Leigh Hunt's 'The Story of Rimini'
Date of Production
1811 - 1816
Medium
pen and brown ink on laid paper, laid down on a paper support, the lower right corner made up, and the scene extended onto the support in brown ink; an additional strip of paper added to the upper edge of the support
Dimensions
Height: 20.4 cm
Width: 32.2 cm
Width: 32.2 cm
Accession Number
D.1958.WF.4676
Mode of Acquisition
Witt Fund, purchase, 1958
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Provenance
Yvonne ffrench (London), November 1958, no. 29; purchased there via the Witt Fund
Exhibition History
La peinture romantique anglaise et les Préraphaélites, Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, 1972 (Jan.-Apr.)
Benjamin Robert Haydon 1786-1846. Painter and Writer, Friend of Wordsworth and Keats, Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage, Grasmere, 1996
Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966
Benjamin Robert Haydon 1786-1846. Painter and Writer, Friend of Wordsworth and Keats, Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage, Grasmere, 1996
Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966
Literature
ffrench, Yvonne, 'Some unrecorded Haydon drawings and their context in the Autobiography' in 'Apollo', November 1958 - 148-52; 68.405
pp. 149, 151, no. 6
ill. on p. 149, fig. IV
see attached PDF
Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966
cat. no. 56
La peinture romantique anglaise et les Préraphaélites, Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, January - April 1972, 1972
cat. no. 137 ...More
Benjamin Robert Haydon 1786-1846. Painter and Writer, Friend of Wordsworth and Keats, Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage, Grasmere, 1996
pp. 119-20, no. 72
ill. on p. 120 ...Less
pp. 149, 151, no. 6
ill. on p. 149, fig. IV
see attached PDF
Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966
cat. no. 56
La peinture romantique anglaise et les Préraphaélites, Musée du Petit Palais, Paris, January - April 1972, 1972
cat. no. 137 ...More
Benjamin Robert Haydon 1786-1846. Painter and Writer, Friend of Wordsworth and Keats, Wordsworth Trust, Dove Cottage, Grasmere, 1996
pp. 119-20, no. 72
ill. on p. 120 ...Less
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: centre: "GOLDING / & / SNELGROVE / 1810".
Inscription: Recto: lower right, brown ink: loss of rest of date: "March 11 1[...]". Support (historic), Recto: lower centre, brown ink: "Rimini - / Twas like the coming of a Shape of light. / Hunt.".
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Recto: lower right, brown ink: loss of rest of date: "March 11 1[...]". Support (historic), Recto: lower centre, brown ink: "Rimini - / Twas like the coming of a Shape of light. / Hunt.".
Collector's mark: none.
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