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Through desert sands - two boys with an Eastern painter

Maker

William Douglas Almond (artist)
1866-1916

Title

Through desert sands - two boys with an Eastern painter

Date of Production

1866 - 1916

Medium

graphite, pen and black ink, blue crayon, white bodycolour (now oxidised) on board

Dimensions

Height: 23.8 cm
Width: 26.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.XX.2

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1978 (circa)

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords







Provenance

H.J. Cornish Collection; presented to Hampstead Public Library, 1928; transferred to the Courtauld Institute of Art, Witt Library in 1966; transferred to The Courtauld Gallery from the Witt Library circa 1978

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper left corner, graphite, erased: “3 […]”; upper right, graphite: “5 ½ / inches / [arrow] / wide”; left centre, graphite: “5”; lower left, black ink, signed: “W.D.ALMOND”; lower left, graphite, erased: “[…] after”; lower centre, graphite, partly erased: “Through Desert Sands / […]”; lower right corner, graphite, erased and now illegible. Verso: upper left corner, purple crayon: “78654b / Wanted boay II [?] / June 1st quality”; centre, graphite, underlined: “195814”; right centre, graphite, Witt negative number: “944/69(25A)”; lower centre, black ballpoint: “‘Through Desert Sands’ / ex Witt Library”.

Stamp: Recto: lower left, blue ink: “M”. Verso: upper right, black ink: “WITT / LIBRARY”; centre, purple ink: “HAMPSTEAD PUBLIC LIBRARIES / LOCAL COLLECTION. / H.J. CORNISH COLLECTION. / 1928.”.

Collector's mark: none.

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