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The Laird of Kirtlebrae

Maker

(artist)
1868-1920

Title

The Laird of Kirtlebrae

Date of Production

(circa) 1901

Medium

graphite, pen and black ink, white bodycolour on card

Dimensions

Height: 24.2 cm
Width: 29.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.XX.37

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, 1966; transferred to The Courtauld Gallery from the Witt Library circa 1978

Literature

Pemberton, Max (ed.), Cassell's Magazine, May 1901; 31, 6
ill. on p. 694

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Stamp: Recto: right upper edge, black ink: “WITT / LIBRARY 1976”and below that: “EX CORNISH COLLECTION / PRES. TO HAMPSTEAD PUBLIC / LIBRARY 1928.”; lower centre, purple ink: "HAMPSTEAD PUBLIC LIBRARIES / LOCAL COLLECTION. / H.J. CORNISH COLLECTION. / 1928"; lower right, purple ink, illegible: “The […]” [see photo in file].

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, graphite: “1 ½ 9 ½ 5 ¼ / ¼ 19/2 2 / 15 / 5”; right centre edge, graphite: “4 ¾ / inches / [arrows] / wide”; lower right corner, graphite, partly erased and now illegible; lower left, graphite, titled: “The Laird of Kirtlebrae / C. Mag” [as in Cassell's Magazine]. Verso: left centre, on a separate piece of red paper formerly adhered and now mostly torn away, black ink: “[…] / WI[…] / SPE[…]”; centre, on an adhered label printed in red ink, filled in with black ink: “Account C. Mag No. 134578 / Name The Laird of Kirtlebrea / Artist F.H. Townsend / Date 20/2/06 [the former crossed out in red ink and replaced in red ink with the following] 9/3/07 and on the same label at upper right in purple ink: “134578” and in the lower left corner in graphite: “P19”; beside the title on the label written in graphite: “Kirtlebrea?”; centre, black ballpoint: “F.H. TOWNSEND / -‘The Laird of Kirtlebr… / pencil / pen & ink / heightened in white” and beside that: “COURTAULD GALLERIES”; left lower edge, black felt pen, former Witt neg. no.: “1026/15(37a)”; lower right, graphite, acc .no.: “D.1978.XX.37”.

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