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Sketch of a procession and Paolo's appearance on horseback - illustration to Leigh Hunt's 'The Story of Rimini'

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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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

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

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.

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