Dido on the funeral pyre
Maker
(artist)
1640-1711
1640-1711
Title
Dido on the funeral pyre
Date of Production
1655 - 1711
Medium
red chalk on laid paper, laid down on a historic support
Dimensions
Width: 19.8 cm
Height: 15.3 cm
Height: 15.3 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.1060
Mode of Acquisition
Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Provenance
Frederick Richard Meatyard, London (1881-1966); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£1.1); Witt Bequest 1952
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 127
p. 127
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: upper centre edge, fragment: legs of a rampant lion? Support (historic): lower centre edge, fragment: tops of letters - "OP" perhaps?
Collector's mark: Removed, now mounted with the drawing, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Support (historic), Verso: upper left, graphite, indistinct: "cn" [?]; right centre, graphite: "64/1". Mount (removed, recorded in file), Recto: lower right, graphite: “C. van der hindcft” [?].
Collector's mark: Removed, now mounted with the drawing, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Support (historic), Verso: upper left, graphite, indistinct: "cn" [?]; right centre, graphite: "64/1". Mount (removed, recorded in file), Recto: lower right, graphite: “C. van der hindcft” [?].
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