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Design for ceiling decoration - gathering of the gods

Maker

(artist)
1675-1734

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1606-1672

Title

Design for ceiling decoration - gathering of the gods

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

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

Dimensions

Height: 28.4 cm
Width: 24.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3480

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

an anonymous eighteenth-century collection; sale of that collection, Sotheby's (London), 2 February 1944, lot 109 (with 5 others); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), for £26 (along with D.1952.RW.3481.1-.2 and D.1952.RW.3482.1-.3); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

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

Inscriptions

Watermark: Recto: left centre edge, fragment: lower half of a Strasburg lily - very faint, but probably above a monogram WR.

Inscription: Recto: upper centre edge, brown ink: 22 ft.

Inscription: Recto: left centre edge, brown ink: 27 ft.

Inscription: Verso: right centre, graphite: John Pike Weston Carrier / Inn at ye Harshorn head in Smithfield / near Pye corner - glrays comes / in Lolond [? another illegible word follows] morn about + in / ye Sumer - goes out for Weston / Wed morn 10 at farthest / 4 S pr 100.

Inscription: Verso: left centre, graphite, list of names with the first name crossed out: Ricard / Hanky / Joan / J N / Antonia.

Inscription: Verso: lower centre, graphite, old attribution: Isaac Fuller.

Collector's mark: none.

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