Design for title page
Maker
(artist)
1759-1817
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
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
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.
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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