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Decorative frieze (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1677-1726

Title

Decorative frieze (recto)

Date of Production

1677 - 1726

Medium

pen and brown ink, red chalk, grey wash (recto), red chalk (verso), on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 9.8 cm
Width: 27 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3482.3

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

unidentified collector, L.3619 (verso) [but the mark was associated with the artist John Talman (1677-1726) in Anthony Griffiths and Hugh Macandrew, 'The Talman Collection, Marks and Sales', The Volume of the Walpole Society, 59, 1997, p. 215, no. 44]; 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, 3481.1-.2 and D.1952.RW.3482.1-.2); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 49

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: upper centre, brown ink, formed of double lines, unidentified hand (L.3619): “W” [mark associated with the artist John Talman by Anthony Griffiths and Hugh Macandrew in 'The Talman Collection, Marks and Sales', The Volume of the Walpole Society, 59, 1997, no. 44]; lower centre, graphite: “9”. Support (removed, see photo), Recto: lower centre margin, graphite: “Apollo + Daphne”. Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower right, graphite: “John Talman (son of William T.) / 1677-1726”.

Collector's mark: Verso: upper left, brown ink: unidentified collector's mark (L.3619) [but likely associated with John Talman, see Inscription field].

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