Design for a stage setting
Maker
Ferdinando Tacca (artist)
1619-1686
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
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
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).
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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