Frieze, with a shield held by putti
Maker
(artist)
1606-1672
1606-1672
Title
Frieze, with a shield held by putti
Date of Production
1621 - 1672
Medium
graphite, traces of red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash and lightly applied white bodycolour on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines
Dimensions
Height: 10.3 cm
Width: 37.7 cm
Width: 37.7 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3481.1
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.3480, 3481.2 and D.1952.RW.3482.1, .2 and .3); Witt Bequest 1952
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 20
William, Iolo A., Early English Watercolours, London: The Connoisseur, 1952
p. 12
p. 20
William, Iolo A., Early English Watercolours, London: The Connoisseur, 1952
p. 12
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink: "D9".
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink: "D9".
Collector's mark: none.
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