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'On the March' - Stone Age families walking through barren landscape; a fire burning behind them

Maker

(artist)
1863-1937

Title

'On the March' - Stone Age families walking through barren landscape; a fire burning behind them

Date of Production

1888

Medium

graphite, pen and black ink on paper prepared with a white chalky base and printed half-tone surface, with scratching out

Dimensions

Height: 24.7 cm
Width: 21.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.XX.33

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

transferred to the Courtauld Gallery from the Witt Library 1978

Literature

'A Day with Primeval Man' in 'The Universal Review', Jan-April 1889 - 303-316; 3
ill. on p. 308

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none. Joseph Pennell in 'Pen Drawing and Pen Draughtsmen: their work and methods', 1920, IDs this paper as papier Gillot or Ross paper (see notes in file for further information).

Inscription: Recto: lower left, black ink, signed and dated: “CHAS:H. SHANNON – 88”. Verso: upper centre edge, acc. no.: “xx 33”; centre, graphite: “haut de 13 ct- / metres”; lower right, graphite: “1 1/2 Grey mount.”; lower right, graphite: “24857”.

Collector's mark: none.

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