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View of the Palatine Hill with the Arch of Constantine

Maker

(artist)
1621-1691

Title

View of the Palatine Hill with the Arch of Constantine

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

pen and grey ink, grey wash on laid paper, with dark brown ink framing lines, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 20.8 cm
Width: 48.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3207

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

Montagu Henry Edmund Cecil Towneley-Bertie, 8th Earl of Abingdon (1887-1963); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 17 July 1935, lot 5 (with D.1952.RW.2851 and 3762); purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 7 January 1943 (£8); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Landscape in French Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1949-1950

Drawings of Rome and Italy in the XVIIth century by Israel Silvestre, Colnaghi, London, 1935

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Backing sheet: centre: a cross above large letters "I H S" (no exact match found in Heawood).

Inscription: Recto: lower left, graphite: "Veuë du Mont Palatin à Rome". Mount (removed): Recto: lower right, graphite, Colnaghi number: “A 7735”; lower left, graphite: “x” [with the left leg turned into a check mark]

Collector's mark: Mount (removed): lower left, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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