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A Break in the Clouds - Stodge, Whose Three Pictures Were Rejected by the Royal Academy, Sees a Way Out of His Difficulties!

Maker

(artist)
1823-1891

Title

A Break in the Clouds - Stodge, Whose Three Pictures Were Rejected by the Royal Academy, Sees a Way Out of His Difficulties!

Date of Production

8 June 1878

Medium

Wood engraving

Dimensions

Height: 18.9 cm
Width: 12.1 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.7777

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










Notes

Illustration to Punch, vol. 74 (1878), p. 255.

Provenance

Acquired by Hampstead Public Library from H. J. Cornish Collection in 1928; transferred to the Courtauld Institute of Art, Witt Library in 1966; transferred to the Courtauld Gallery from the Witt Library in 1990.

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: upper right, printed in image: ENORMOUS / PRICES / GIVEN FOR / OLD / CANVAS

Signature: Recto: lower right, printed in image: CK

Inscription: Recto: lower centre, typed below image: "A BREAK IN THE CLOUDS." / STODGE, WHOSE THREE PICTURES WERE REJECTED BY THE ROYAL ACADEMY, SEES A WAY / OUT OF HIS DIFFICULTIES!

Stamp: Recto: lower right, stamped in blue: HAMPSTEAD PUBLIC LIBRARIES / LOCAL COLLECTION. / H. J. CORNISH COLLECTION / 1928.

Label: Recto: lower left, black pen: Charles Keene

Inscription: Recto: lower right, black pen: Punch

Stamp: Mount, Recto: lower right, stamped in blue: EX CORNISH COLLECTION / PRES. TO HAMPSTEAD PUBLIC / LIBRARY 1928.

Stamp: Mount, Recto: lower right, stamped in blue: WITT / LIBRARY

Stamp: Mount, Recto: lower right, stamped in blue: M

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