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Count Rodolph's Heir

Maker

(artist)
1794-1859

(engraver)
1804-1866

(publisher)

Title

Count Rodolph's Heir

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 15.8 cm
Width: 22.2 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4811

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: Recto: upper right mount, stamped: WITT / LIBRARY

Inscription: recto: lower right mount, stamped in blue: M

Inscription: recto: lower left: C.R. Leslie, R.A.

Inscription: recto: lower right: W. Chevalier.

Inscription: recto: lower centre: Count Rodolph's Heir

recto: lower centre, paper glued to mount, printed: COUNT RODOLPH'S HEIR. / DRAWN BY C.R. LESLIE, R.A. / LONG she watched and gazed with intense and eager tone, / her dark eyes dwelling on every feature, as though earth / held no parallel to their beauty; sometimes she looked on the broad determined brow, and thought of the majesty and / inspiration which sate on it, as a throne; and sometimes the / bold and exquisitely chiselled profile fixed her attention. and recalled those early days of affection / Vide Keepsake, 1836.

Inscription: recto: upper left, pencil: 975/8(24a)

Inscription: verso: centre right mount, pencil: 1493 //

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