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Design for ceiling decoration

Maker

(artist)
1675-1734

Title

Design for ceiling decoration

Medium

graphite, pen and ink (brown), wash (grey-brown) on brown laid paper, the central image framed in a circle with brown ink

Dimensions

Height: 30.2 cm
Width: 26.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2248

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

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, 2228, 2230, 2231, 2233, 2237, 2243, 2245, 2246, 2250); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

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

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

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

La peinture anglaise XVIIIe e XIXe siecles, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1938

Meisterwerke englischer Malerei aus drei Jahrhunderten, Vienna, 1927 ...Less

Literature

Architectural Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1961
cat. no. 1

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

Inscriptions

Inscription: Glory & Eternal Felicity waiting to Crown / the Heroick Vertues. //

Inscription: Prudence.

Inscription: Temperance

Inscription: Justice

Inscription: Fortitude

Inscription: 5 10 15 20 ft.

Inscription: No 6 [? can only see tip of number]

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

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