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Group of heads - Prince and Princess of Wales and their children

Maker

(artist)
1792-1871

Title

Group of heads - Prince and Princess of Wales and their children

Date of Production

1870

Medium

graphite on wove paper, with numorous pinholes across the sheet

Dimensions

Height: 26.8 cm
Width: 33.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1974.XX.21

Mode of Acquisition

Tom Boase, bequest, 1974 (August)

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Walker Galleries (London); purchased there by Thomas Boase (1898-1974), December 1961, for 22 guineas; Boase Bequest 1974

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto (all within drawing, graphite, artist’s hand, labelling the figures): upper left: "6 Years Months 1870 June - / HRH / Prince Albert Victor"; left of centre: "HRH Princess Louise / 3 Years 4 Months 1870"; centre: "HRH Princess of Wales"; lower left: "P Maud / 1 Years[this crossed out] 2 Years 1870"; lower left centre edge: "5 Years / HRH Prince George"; lower right, number circled: "36 Hayter". Verso: upper left, graphite: "cream / pale brown pink wash / 11 1/2 x 10".

Collector's mark: none.

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