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Adoration of the shepherds

Maker

(artist)
1550-1628

Title

Adoration of the shepherds

Date of Production

1625

Medium

pen and ink (brown), wash (brown), bodycolour (white, now discoloured) on brown laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 19.3 cm
Width: 27.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1206

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

Sir Charles Greville (1763-1832), L.549; by descent to his nephew, George Guy, 4th Earl of Warwick (1818-1893), L.2600; probably his sale, Christie's (London), 21 May 1896, lot 251 (with D.1952.RW.1207, as 'The Nativity'); purchased there by Richards; E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£2.5); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970

Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 01/09/1960-01/10/1960

Literature

Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970
cat. no. 19

Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 84

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1960
cat. no. 36 ...More

Tietze, Hans and Erica Tietze-Conrat, The drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th centuries, New York, 1944
no. 1021, p. 209 ...Less

Inscriptions

Inscription: 1625

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Earl of Warwick (L.2600)

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Charles Greville (L.549)

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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