Design for ceiling decoration - gathering of the gods
Maker
(artist)
1675-1734
1675-1734
Title
Design for ceiling decoration - gathering of the gods
Medium
pen and ink (brown), wash (brown), bodycolour (white) on brown paper, framed with brown ink in an oval, laid down on a historic card support
Dimensions
Height: 34.8 cm
Width: 24.4 cm
Width: 24.4 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3499.1
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 111; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), for £7; Witt Bequest 1952
Exhibition History
English Baroque sketches: the painter interior in the age of Thornhill, Marble Hill House, Twickenham, 01/05/1974-07/07/1974
Architectural Drawings from the Witt Collection, University of Nottingham, 01/05/1972-01/06/1972
Five centuries of drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, October 1953-November 1953
Architectural Drawings from the Witt Collection, University of Nottingham, 01/05/1972-01/06/1972
Five centuries of drawings, Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, October 1953-November 1953
Literature
English Baroque sketches: the painter interior in the age of Thornhill, Marble Hill House, Twickenham, 1974
cat. no. 49
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 52
cat. no. 49
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 52
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: unable to check as is laid down; none evident in raking light.
Inscription: [...]pany / [...]her / as a / Generosity / Glory of Princes / Honour / Humility / Jusice / Magnanimity / Modesy / evil Vigilance //
Inscription: Triu[...] / f[...] / Vertue Heroic / crowned with Lan[...] / attend with ye / constancy and Fid[...] / Herc: or Vert: in[...] / down or desroyin / Fame sounding / to ye 4 Quarters / praise of Vertue. / The Love towards her C[...] / danger-treading on n[...] //
Inscription: [...]pany / [...]her / as a / Generosity / Glory of Princes / Honour / Humility / Jusice / Magnanimity / Modesy / evil Vigilance //
Inscription: Triu[...] / f[...] / Vertue Heroic / crowned with Lan[...] / attend with ye / constancy and Fid[...] / Herc: or Vert: in[...] / down or desroyin / Fame sounding / to ye 4 Quarters / praise of Vertue. / The Love towards her C[...] / danger-treading on n[...] //
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