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Allegory of Rome - design for a title page

Maker

(artist)
1606-1669

Title

Date of Production

1620 - 1669

Medium

graphite, black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, incised for transfer, with brown ink framing lines, the verso prepared with black chalk

Dimensions

Height: 23 cm
Width: 14 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1599

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

H.E. Morritt; his sale, Sotheby's (London), 22 March 1923, lot 19 (with one other); purchased there by Frits Lugt (1884-1970); given by him to Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Theodoor van Thulden: Een Zuidnederlandse barokschilder/Un peintre baroque du cercle de Rubens, Noordbrabants Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg, 07/12/1991-17/05/1992

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977-January 1978

Literature

Roy, Alain, Theodoor van Thulden: een zuidernederlandse barokschilder/un peintre baroque du cercle de Rubens, Zwolle, 1991
no. 31
p. 175

Flemish drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, October 1977- January 1978
cat. no. 60

Roy, Alain, Théodore van Thulden (1606-1669), PhD, University of Strasbourg, unpublished 1974
no. A60, pp. 269-70 ...More

Laureyssens, W., Theodoor van Thulden, zijn leven en zijn werk, Diploma, University of Ghent, unpublished 1960
no. 48, p. 103

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 131 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: centre: bunch of grapes between two towers on a plinth above letters "OAP" (no match in Briquet or Heawood; per Peter Bower, watermarks in this form first appear in Northern France around 1620 and continue throughout the century, with several examples in use in England throughout the 17th century).

Inscription: Recto: within the drawing, brown ink, artist's hand: on banner at upper left: "concedat / Laurea / Lingue"; centre on pedestal: "Roma"; on banner at upper right: "cedant / Arma / Togae". Verso: lower left corner, graphite, partially over L.2228b: "J.965"; lower centre edge, brown ink: "T..v. Túlden."

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

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