Signed and dated in pen and ink Sickert. 1901. Inscribed in pen and ink lower right and below The property of Blanche Countess of Airlie, Airlie Castle, [?] and La scuola di S. Marco.
Literature: Baron 2006, n. 162.2.
Provenance: Countess of Airlie;
Lady Spencer-Churchill;
her sale, Christie's, 18 March 1966, lot 30;
FOLIO SOCIETY July 1966;
Christie's Sale, Modern British and Irish Art, 12 December 2014, London, lot 172.
Exhibitions: London, Folio Society, Collectors' Corner, July 1966, no. 47.
The drawing dates back to the "so-called 'second' visit to Venice of 1900-1901" and is related to the painting with the same title now in the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Paul Mellon Collection (Baron 2006, p. 43, n. 162).
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