Design for decorative panel with Calliope, Fame and putti on clouds (recto)
Maker
(artist)
1689-1767
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
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
Keywords
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)
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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