About the Artwork
Charon's Boat
between 1756 and 1815
James Gillray
1756-1815
English
Unknown
Brush and brown ink over brown chalk and graphite pencil
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Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Elliott T. Slocum Fund
66.14
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, lower right corner: [indecipherable, crossed out] | Shys [crossed out] | The Stygian Lake Lake Inscribed, in pencil, recto, lower right edge: [indecipherable, erased] Charon you should not come | [illegible] you [illegible] for us Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, upper right corner: Charon's Boat passing the Stygian Lake | or the last [words crossed out] | Broad Bottomites on thier last voyage Inscribed, in pencil above insciption:Taking the dead over Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, at center, on sail: Catholic Bill Inscribed, in blue pencil, verso, upper left: [indecipherable]
Provenance
1815-1818, Hannah Humphrey (London, England);1818-ca. 1835, George Humphrey (London, England);
July 13-16 1835, Mrs. George Humphrey, sold, E. Foster and son, lot 402 (London, England);
by 1835, P & D Colnaghi (London, England);
ca. 1931-1961, Minto Wilson (London, England);
1961-1964, Mrs. H. Blake Tyler (London, England);
July 6-7, 1964, sold Sotheby and Co., lot 45 (London, England);
J. S. Mass (London, England);
1966-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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James Gillray, Charon's Boat, between 1756 and 1815, brush and brown ink over brown chalk and graphite pencil. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Elliott T. Slocum Fund, 66.14.
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