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Birth of John the Baptist

Maker

(artist)
1648-1678

Title

Birth of John the Baptist

Date of Production

1675

Medium

red and black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, with dark brown ink framing lines, lower left corner made up

Dimensions

Height: 14.8 cm
Width: 19.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.1795

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

A. Berthel, Surrey; purchased from him by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

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

Inscription: Recto: within the drawing, lower right, brown ink, signed and dated by the artist: "D: Bosboom fecit / 1675 1/30 //". Verso: upper left corner, "9" in brown ink, the rest in graphite, partially abraded: "93 / N3 [...] / 42 //"; lower left, graphite, erased and hard to read: "C C 19c [?]".

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