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Design for title page

Maker

(artist)
1759-1817

Title

Design for title page

Date of Production

1801

Medium

pen and grey ink, grey wash on wove paper, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 28.6 cm
Width: 24.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2157

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

Spencer (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 28

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper right of centre, grey ink, signed and dated: "Julius Ibbetson del: / 1801"; centre, grey ink and wash: “AN ACCIDENCE OR GAMUT / OF OIL PAINTING, / BY JULIUS IBBETSON. / Published by Darton & Harvey / Gracechurch Street / London 1801."; lower centre, grey ink, signed and dated: "Julius Ibbetson Del. 1801"; lower right edge, graphite, erased: "Julius Caesar Ibbetson [rest of line illegible]".

Collector's mark: none.

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