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Design for an unexecuted monument, probably for William Shakespeare

Maker

(artist)
1694-1770

Title

Design for an unexecuted monument, probably for William Shakespeare

Date of Production

1700 - 1770

Medium

graphite, pen and grey and brown ink, grey and brown wash, on laid paper, executed using a ruler and compas, laid down on a historic support

Dimensions

Height: 29.9 cm
Width: 14.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1419

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

Sotheby's (London), 25 - 26 January 1927, lot 170; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) (along with D.1952.RW.1418, 1420); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

London and Londoners, Royal British Academy, London, 1939

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 129

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: lower centre: "IV" (per Peter Bower, the initials of Jean Villedary, one of several generations of papermakers, whose initials were appropriated by makers from all over Western Europe as a mark of quality).

Collector's mark: Support (historic), Recto: lower left, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: upper centre (hidden beneath drawing and only visible via transmitted light) and repeated at lower centre, graphite: "Ruysbrack / Design for Garrick Monument".

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