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Vulcan's forge with Mars and Venus in the foreground

Maker

(artist)
1702-1788

Title

Vulcan's forge with Mars and Venus in the foreground

Date of Production

1715 - 1788

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, white bodycolour, on red-prepared laid paper, on a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 29.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2222

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

heat




Provenance

S.N. Gould; purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 2 May 1934; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 26 September 1935 (£7); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962

Old Masters from the Witt Collection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 01/01/1943-01/05/1943

Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1937-38

Literature

Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 96

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to see through mount and wash.

Inscription: Mount (historic), Verso: centre, graphite, circled: “4”.

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

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