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Design for decorative panel with Calliope, Fame and putti on clouds (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1689-1767

Title

Design for decorative panel with Calliope, Fame and putti on clouds (recto)

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink and red wash, framed in red wash and brown ink with an arched top and bottom (recto), graphite (verso) on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 31.4 cm
Width: 19.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2484

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

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Provenance

General Henry Hopkinson; his sale, Sotheby's (London), 2 March 1932, lot (with 6 others); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: three stacked crescents (no exact match in Heawood but mark is generally an 18th-century Venetian mark).

Inscription: calliope scrivendo li fatti di Vincentini / (Gio con la tromba che va di vulgando li fatti duomini [...] //

Inscription: disegno disegnato / di Gasparo Diziani //

Inscription: 37

Inscription: di T[...] [...]ani

Inscription: 150

Inscription: No 37

Inscription: 15

Inscription: 84

Inscription: #11

Inscription: x [showing through to recto very strongly]

Stamp: Gallant Graz[...] Raci [?]

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

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