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Cartoon of a man wearing a top hat and a clown struggling to carry an enormous book - study for an illustration for Punch

Maker

(artist)
1823-1891

Title

Cartoon of a man wearing a top hat and a clown struggling to carry an enormous book - study for an illustration for Punch

Date of Production

1861

Medium

graphite, pen and black ink on tracing paper, laid down on a paper support

Dimensions

Height: 12.5 cm
Width: 9.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1965.WF.4746

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









Provenance

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

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper right edge, graphite: "Vol. 41 fo. IV.". Support (historic), Verso: lower left corner, graphite, circled: "E.2827.". Mount (removed, now missing, recorded in notes in file), numbered and inscribed by Rudolf: "69 study for tail-piece to preface vol.41".

Collector's mark: none.

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