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Dido on the funeral pyre

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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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

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” [?].

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