Design for ceiling decoration - gathering of the gods
Maker
(artist)
1675-1734
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1606-1672
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
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
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.
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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