What is Whisky?
Maker
(artist)
1861-1945
1861-1945
Title
What is Whisky?
Date of Production
executed :
Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
Height: 25.1 cm
Width: 18.1 cm
Width: 18.1 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.5266
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
Keywords
Provenance
Information not yet known or updated
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: upper centre margin, printed: PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.--FEBRUARY 26, 1908.
Inscription: Recto: lower centre margin, printed: WHAT IS WHISKY? / LORD JAMES OF HEREFORD (Chairman of the Royal Commission on Whisky):-- / "BE THOU A SPIRIT OF HEALTH OR GOBLIN DAMN'D... / THOU COM'ST IN SUCH A QUESTIONABLE SHAPE / THAT I WILL SPEAK TO THEE."--Hamlet, ACT I., SC. 4.
Inscription: Recto: lower centre within image, printed: Bernard Partridge.
Stamp: Recto: lower right margin, stamped: HAMPSTEAD PUBLIC LIBRARIES / LOCAL COLLECTION. / H. J. CORNISH COLLECTION. / 1928.
Stamp: Verso: upper left, stamped: WITT / LIBRARY 1979.
Inscription: Recto: lower centre margin, printed: WHAT IS WHISKY? / LORD JAMES OF HEREFORD (Chairman of the Royal Commission on Whisky):-- / "BE THOU A SPIRIT OF HEALTH OR GOBLIN DAMN'D... / THOU COM'ST IN SUCH A QUESTIONABLE SHAPE / THAT I WILL SPEAK TO THEE."--Hamlet, ACT I., SC. 4.
Inscription: Recto: lower centre within image, printed: Bernard Partridge.
Stamp: Recto: lower right margin, stamped: HAMPSTEAD PUBLIC LIBRARIES / LOCAL COLLECTION. / H. J. CORNISH COLLECTION. / 1928.
Stamp: Verso: upper left, stamped: WITT / LIBRARY 1979.
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