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Fairies on the Sea Shore

Maker

(artist)
1779-1843

(engraver)
1801-1885

(engraver)
1810-1856

(publisher)
1804-1877

Title

Fairies on the Sea Shore

Date of Production

1850

Medium

medium : material : ink & support : material : paper

Dimensions

Height: 22.3 cm
Width: 29.2 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.3578.15

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower centre margin & recto : : Fairies on the Sea Shore. / Disappearing at sun rise. / From a tracing in chalk on gauze made by Allston from his original design on canvass afterwards destroyed._ The lower part of the picture was / intended to be in shadow. the light of the rising sun just touching the upper clouds and leading figure of the fugitives. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower right margin & recto : : Size 4 ft. by 3 ft. //

Inscription: inscription : typed : lower centre margin & recto : later Witt inscription : : W. ALLSTON //

Inscription: inscription : stamped : upper left margin & recto : later Witt inscription : : WITT / LIBRARY //

Inscription: inscription : stamped : lower left margin & recto : later Witt inscription : : M //

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