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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 (verso), on laid paper, the lower edge cut in a curve

Dimensions

Height: 26.1 cm
Width: 21.4 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2268

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

B.T. Batsford (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), probably in 1927, with D.1952.RW.2266 and 2269; 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

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

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, American Federation of the Arts, Washington, D.C. and nine cities in the USA, 1951

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949 - 1950

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948

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

London and Londoners, Royal British Academy, London, 1939

Loan exhibition of Dorset artists of the past, County Museum, Dorchester, 22/12/1933-27/01/1934 ...Less

Literature

English Baroque sketches: the painter interior in the age of Thornhill, Marble Hill House, Twickenham, 1974
cat. no. 32

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

Some British Drawings on loan to the National Gallery of Canada from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1949-50
no. 54 ...More

Some British Drawings from the Collection of Sir Robert Witt, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1948
no. 77
pl. XII

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

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left centre edge, fragment: lower half of a Strasburg lily above monogram "WR".

Inscription: &c

Inscription: Thornhill

Inscription: Cupola St Paul's / Sir James Thornhill //

Inscription: Rob Farr Burll [?]

Inscription: d / b //

Inscription: Y 6

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