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Design for ceiling decoration

Maker

(artist)
1675-1734

Title

Design for ceiling decoration

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown wash and watercolour with some added gum arabic, on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 19.4 cm
Width: 25.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2555

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

Dr Barry Delany, Kilkenny (ca. 1875); E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

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

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

Literature

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

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Thornhill

Inscription: E.1907.

Inscription: Gold [?]

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

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