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Anne Pitt

Portrait Drawing
1810s (made), 1819 (collected)
Artist/Maker
Ozias Humphry (artist)
Mary Dawson Turner (copyist)
Dawson Turner (collector)
Place of origin
Britain (made)

Pencil portrait, one of 42 collected in a volume bound in crimson crushed morocco leather with gold tooling and the crest, motto and monogram of Dawson Turner.


Object details

Categories
Portraits
Drawings
Object type
Portrait drawing
Titles
  • Anne Pitt (assigned by artist)
  • A Collection of Original Portraits, 1819 (series title)
Materials and techniques
pencil on tracing paper, bound in crushed morocco leather with gold tooling.
Tracing Paper
Pencil
Drawing
Brief description
Ozias Humphry. Anne Pitt (d.1789), sister of the 1st Earl of Chatham. Copy, possibly by Mary Dawson Turner.
1 of 42 portraits in "A Collection of Original Portraits, 1819" collected by Dawson Turner
Physical description
Pencil portrait, one of 42 collected in a volume bound in crimson crushed morocco leather with gold tooling and the crest, motto and monogram of Dawson Turner.
Dimensions
  • Volume height: 14.75in
  • Width: 11.75in
  • Height: 3.5in
  • Width: 3in
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1927, London: Board of Education, 1928.
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1927, London: Board of Education, 1928.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.1121-1927

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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