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Decorative panel using armour (recto)
Sketches of figures, one seated (verso)

Maker

After
(artist)
1499-1543

Title

Decorative panel using armour (recto)
Sketches of figures, one seated (verso)

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, brown, yellow and white bodycolour (recto), black chalk (verso) on laid paper; the upper corners cut and made up

Dimensions

Height: 14.7 cm
Width: 18.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3499

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

John Talman, Italy and Hinxworth (1677-1726); possibly his estate sale, Cock (London), 4 - 10 April 1728; an anonymous eighteenth-century collection; sale of that collection, Sotheby's (London), 2 February 1944, lot 71 (with 30 others); purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), for £14; Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Verso: centre, brown ink: J: Talman / 15 / AA (Does not match any of Talman's marks on Lugt but the 'AA' as inscribed here is listed among known Talman marks in Anthony Griffiths and Hugh Macandrew, 'The Talman Collection, Marks and Sales', The Volume of the Walpole Society, 59, 1997, p. 208, no. 20).

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