Page of a sketchbook - a singing head
Maker
(artist)
1860-1942
1860-1942
Title
Page of a sketchbook - a singing head
Date of Production
(circa) 1888
Medium
graphite on laid paper
Dimensions
Height: 5.6 cm
Width: 7.6 cm
Width: 7.6 cm
Accession Number
D.1962.WF.4710.10
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
Keywords
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
Literature
Laughton, Bruce, Philip Wilson Steer 1860-1942, Oxford, 1971
pp. 35-36
pl. 74
Laughton gives the drawing the wrong page number
pp. 35-36
pl. 74
Laughton gives the drawing the wrong page number
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, graphite, page number: "10".
Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, graphite, page number: "10".
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