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Dead game

Maker

(artist)
1790-1864

Title

Dead game

Date of Production

(circa) 1826

Medium

graphite, watercolour with some added gum arabic and bodycolour on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 14.3 cm
Width: 22.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1982.JW.23

Mode of Acquisition

John Witt, Art Fund bequest & grant aid, 1982

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

John Ruskin advise those wanting to imitate Hunt's watercolour technique that if you 'take the [transparent] colour tolerably dark on your brush, only always liquid (not pasty), and dash away the superfluous colour on blotting paper, you will find that, touching the paper very lightly with the dry brush, you can, by repeated touches, produce a dusty kind of bloom, very valuable in giving depth to shadow.' Ruskin also advised students to 'practise the production of mixed tints by interlaced touches of the pure colours out of whcih they are formed, and use the process at the parts of your sketches where you wish to get rich and luscious effects. Study the works of William Hunt ... in this respect.'

Provenance

Caroline Smyth; purchased from her by Sir John Witt, London (1907-1982), July 1980; John Witt Bequest via the Art Fund 1982

Exhibition History

Material Evidence, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 30/10/1998-24/01/1999

Literature

John Witt, William Henry Hunt (1790-1864): Life and Work, with a catalogue (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1982)
no. 758

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right, graphite, signed: "W. HUNT".

Collector's mark: none.

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