Pages of a sketchbook - inscription over two pages (inside cover and first page)
Maker
(artist)
1860-1942
1860-1942
Title
Pages of a sketchbook - inscription over two pages (inside cover and first page)
Date of Production
(circa) 1888
Medium
graphite on laid paper
Dimensions
Height: 5.6 cm
Width: 15 cm
Width: 15 cm
Accession Number
D.1962.WF.4710.1
Mode of Acquisition
Witt Fund, purchase, 1962
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Provenance
given by the artist's executors to his brother-in-law, R.J. Macdonald; given by him to C.L. Townley, December 1945; his sale, Sotheby's (London), October 1962, lot 320; purchased there by Alister Mathews, Dorset (1907-1985); purchased from him via the Witt Fund, 1962
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Inscription: Inside front cover of sketchbook: graphite: “62-28 / This is the Sketchbook of Philip / Wilson Steer 1860-1942 given / [with colourbox & brushes] by S's / executors to his friend & / artist J. Macdonald who in / Dec: 1945 gave it to C.L. / Townley who sent it for sale / at Sotheby's in 1962. It is / of the period when Sickert &”. Facing page: graphite: “Steer worked together. These / are notes made at a music / hall. The man with the top hat well back on his head / looks very much like John / Havard Thomas (see pl. / 33a opposite page 93 of / D.S. MacColl's "Life, Work / & Setting of P.W. Steer 1945).”.
Inscription: Inside front cover of sketchbook: graphite: “62-28 / This is the Sketchbook of Philip / Wilson Steer 1860-1942 given / [with colourbox & brushes] by S's / executors to his friend & / artist J. Macdonald who in / Dec: 1945 gave it to C.L. / Townley who sent it for sale / at Sotheby's in 1962. It is / of the period when Sickert &”. Facing page: graphite: “Steer worked together. These / are notes made at a music / hall. The man with the top hat well back on his head / looks very much like John / Havard Thomas (see pl. / 33a opposite page 93 of / D.S. MacColl's "Life, Work / & Setting of P.W. Steer 1945).”.
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