Design for ceiling decoration
Maker
(artist)
1675-1734
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
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
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
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)
Inscription: Thornhill
Inscription: E.1907.
Inscription: Gold [?]
Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)
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