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Frieze, with a shield held by putti

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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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

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink: "D9".

Collector's mark: none.

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