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'Diplomacy' at the Garrick Theatre

Maker

(artist)
1870-1954

Title

'Diplomacy' at the Garrick Theatre

Date of Production

1893

Medium

graphite, pen and black ink and some scratching out on wove paper with graphite framing lines, laid down on board

Dimensions

Height: 21.7 cm
Width: 27.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.XX.3

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

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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: all black ink, artist’s hand: upper left: ““AND I WILL KILL YOU.!””; upper right: “THE THEFT. / COUNTESS ZICKA. / (MISS OLGA NETHERSOLE)”; centre: “ACT.II.”; lower left: “JULIAN. / (MR FORBES-ROBERTSON).”, and below that: “THE SCENE / BETWEEN JULIAN & HIS WIFE.”; lower centre: “COUNT ORLOFF. / (MR BANCROFT.).”; lower right, signed: “Reginald. / Cleaver.”; lower right corner: “THE WOES OF LADY HENRY FAIRFAX. / (MRS BANCROFT).”. Mount, Recto: lower left, brown ink: ‘“Diplomacy’ at the Garrick Theatre.”; lower right, brown ink: “R. Cleaver”. Mount, Verso: centre, black ballpoint, Witt negative number: “914/7(10)”.

Stamp: Mount, Recto: lower centre edge, purple ink, partially cut off: "HAMPSTEAD PUBLIC LIBRARIES / LOCAL COLLECTION. / H.J. CORNISH COLLECTION".

Collector's mark: none.

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