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Design for a mural painting: Mercury, with Venus and Cupid, seated on clouds (recto)
Sketches of Leda and the swan and cornices (verso)

Maker

(artist)
1663-1721

Title

Design for a mural painting: Mercury, with Venus and Cupid, seated on clouds (recto)
Sketches of Leda and the swan and cornices (verso)

Date of Production

1600 - 1799

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink (recto and verso) on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 7.8 cm
Width: 18.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3107.5

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

Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), by June 1936; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Architectural Drawings from the Witt Collection, University of Nottingham, 01/05/1972-01/06/1972

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto: upper right corner, fragment: edge of a circle.

Inscription: Mount (removed, now missing, recorded in file for D.1952.RW.3071.1 and partially visible in photograph in file for 3107.5), graphite: “Designs by Legard for ornaments at Chatsworth” and “Loui[…]”.

Collector's mark: none.

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