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Man asleep in an armchair

Maker

(artist)
1934-1996

Forgery in the manner of
(artist)
1757-1827

Title

Man asleep in an armchair

Date of Production

1900 - 1999

Medium

pen and brown and grey ink, brown wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 15.3 cm
Width: 15.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1971.WF.4758

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Fund, purchase, 1971 (22 November)

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Provenance

purchased via the Witt Fund from the artist 22 November 1971 (£50, as a Rowlandson)

Exhibition History

Art and Artifice: Fakes from the Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 17/06/2023-08/10/2023

Literature

Hebborn, Eric, Drawn to trouble: confessions of a master forger, New York, Random House, 1991
p. 345

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: none.

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