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Design for the decoration of the dome of Saint Paul's, London (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1675-1734

Title

Design for the decoration of the dome of Saint Paul's, London (recto)

Date of Production

(circa) 1715 - 1721

Medium

graphite, pen and ink (brown), wash (brown) (recto), graphite, pen and ink (brown) (verso), on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 26.9 cm
Width: 22.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2228

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







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Provenance

Mrs. Esdaile; acquired from her by B.T. Batsford (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), before November 1926 (along with D.1952.RW.2223, 2225, 2227, 2230, 2231, 2233, 2237, 2243, 2245, 2246, 2248, 2250); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

English Baroque sketches: the painter interior in the age of Thornhill, Marble Hill House, Twickenham, 01/05/1974-07/07/1974

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

Drawings from the Witt Collection, University of Southampton, 16/02/1970-04/03/1970 ...More

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

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

An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Sir James Thornhill, Guildhall Art Gallery, London, 04/06/1958-10/07/1958

Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1958-59

catalogue untraced, San Francisco, 1938 ...Less

Literature

English Baroque sketches: the painter interior in the age of Thornhill, Marble Hill House, Twickenham, 1974
cat. no. 33

Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 13
ill. on p. 25

Architectural Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1961
cat. no. 5 ...More

Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1958 - 1959
cat. no. 1

Girouard, Mark, 'An English Master of the Baroque' in 'Country Life', 19 June 1958
pp. 1360-1
fig. 5

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 51

Hussey, Christopher, 'The Art of Sir James Thornhill' in 'Country Life', 5 July 1941
pp. 24ff
ill. on p. 26

The Wren Society, 1940; XVII
pp. 11, 81
pl. XVIII ...Less

Inscriptions

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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