Randolph Caldecott
English, 1846–1886
The Volunteer's Courtship, 1798
c. 1870
| Medium | oil on paper or wood-pulp board, mounted on Masonite |
| Dimensions | 16 x 11 in. (40.6 x 27.9 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.667 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Randolph Caldecott, The Volunteer's Courtship, 1798, c. 1870, oil on paper or wood-pulp board, mounted on Masonite. Clark Art Institute, 1955.667
Select Bibliography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984.
Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992.
Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
Watkinson, Henry. Catalogue of a Loan Collection of the Works of Randolph Caldecott, Exhibited at the Brasenose Club, Manchester, March, 1888. Exhibition catalogue. Manchester: Brasenose Club, 1888.
EUROPEAN PAINTINGS CATALOGUE ENTRY
Provenance
C. J. Waddell, Manchester (by 1888–90, his sale, Christie’s, London, 5 May 1890, no. 39); [Grundy and Smith, Manchester]; [Agnew’s, London, Liverpool, and Manchester]; William Clough, Knutsford, Cheshire;¹ sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, 11–12 Apr. 1939, no. 81, sold to Clark; Robert Sterling Clark (1939–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955. 1.The preceding three entries in the provenance come from labels on the back of the frame and panel; their place in the chronology of ownership cannot be determined.
