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View of Saint Peter's, Vatican

Maker

(artist)
1745-1812

Title

View of Saint Peter's, Vatican

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink, grey wash, touches of white bodycolour on laid paper, inlaid into an historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 33.6 cm
Width: 27.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1643

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

Prince Wladimir Nikolaevitch Argoutinsky-Dolgoroukoff, Paris (1875-1941), L.2602d; his sale, Sotheby's (London), 4 July 1923, lot 15; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (£5); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Architectural Drawings from the Witt Collection, University of Nottingham, 01/05/1972-01/06/1972

Architectural Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/07/1961-01/10/1961

Literature

Architectural Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1961
cat. no. 40

Inscriptions

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: lower centre margin, brown ink: Veduta interna della Navata piccola della Chiesa di S. Pietro in Vaticano.

Inscription: Mount (hisotirc), Recto: lower left, red-brown ink: No 624.

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: left lower edge, brown ink, cut off by edge: [...]sco Panini fecit.

Inscription: Mount (historic), Recto: lower right, graphite, mostly erased: C[...].

Inscription: Mount (historic), Verso: lower right, graphite, Witt number: 1643.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left, stamped in black: Prince Wladimir Nikolaevitch Argoutinsky-Dolgoroukoff (L.2602d).

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

Watermark: Recto (only visible in raking light due to mount): left of centre: Strasburg lily.

Inscription: Outer Witt mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower right, graphite: F. Pannini.

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