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Design for a stage setting

Maker

Ferdinando Tacca (artist)
1619-1686

Title

Design for a stage setting

Date of Production

1635 - 1690

Medium

graphite, pen and black ink, grey wash on laid paper, laid down, with black ink framing lines partially on the drawing's sheet and partially on the backing sheet

Dimensions

Height: 24.6 cm
Width: 22 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2459

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

Lewis; Henry Phillpotts, Bishop of Exeter (1778-1869); probably his estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 5 November 1930; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

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

Literature

Architectural Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1961
cat. no. 54

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto: left centre: fragment of a crowned shield (too fragmentary to identify).

Inscription: Verso (backing sheet): upper left, black ink and graphite: “8.6 in x 9.5”; upper left, graphite: “Ferdinando Tacca / 1619-1686 //”; centre, graphite, partially erased: “Ordinary line bR […] / Centre / Temple / Zehron[?] //”.

Collector's mark: Verso (backing sheet): lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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