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Flag of truce - cartoon for 'Punch'

Maker

(artist)
1820-1914

Title

Flag of truce - cartoon for 'Punch'

Date of Production

(December) 1899

Medium

graphite, white bodycolour (as erasure) on white wove paper, with graphite framing lines, laid down on an old card support

Dimensions

Height: 25.8 cm
Width: 19 cm

Accession Number

D.1965.WF.4743

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Fund, purchase, 1965 (June)

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords







revolvers

Provenance

Dr Carl Robert Rudolf, London (1884-1974); Rudolf Gift via the Witt Fund June 1965

Exhibition History

Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966

Literature

Newly Acquired Drawings for the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1965-1966
cat. no. 61

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check as is laid down.

Inscription: Recto: within drawing, upper left, graphite: “FLAG / OF / TRUCE”; lower left corner, graphite, signed with monogram and dated: “JT / 1899”; lower right corner (now no longer visible - see photo), graphite: “TENNIEL / Gift Rudolf / June 1965”. Support (historic), Verso: upper right corner (no longer visible, see photo), graphite: “s/-”; centre, graphite: “11”; lower left (inscription no longer visible - see photo), graphite: “5.65 [this crossed out] / 4.65 / 4743”. Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower left corner, graphite: “4.65”. Separate card mounted on bottom of historic support, graphite: “John Tenniel. / The Sullied White Flag. / John Bull. "If you abuse that flag. I won't answer for my men!" / Punch. Dec. 20. 1899.”.

Collector's mark: none.

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