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Design for a goblet

Maker

(artist)
1818-1875

Title

Design for a goblet

Date of Production

1818 - 1875

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink (no brown wash, just smudging) on wove paper with graphite framing lines on three edges (trimmed away on the right), laid down, and that in turn laid down on a mount (Witt's? L.2228b is on the verso hidden now that it is laid down on the mount but evident in raking light), which has been heavily damaged around the edges from the removal of a former overmount

Dimensions

Height: 24.2 cm
Width: 9.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.2715

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

Thomas Esmond Lewinsky (1892-1947); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 24 November 1937; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228 (hidden on verso), 24 January 1938 (£16, along with D.1952.RW.1343 and D.1952.RW.1805); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 49

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check due to mount; none evident in raking light.

Inscription: Verso (not visible, see photo): lower left, graphite: “EDIE”. Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower right, graphite: “Alfred Stevens / 1817-1875”.

Label: Verso (not visible, see photo): upper left corner, mostly removed/cut off: "PMA[...]".

Collector's mark: Verso (hidden, evident in raking light): lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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