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Design for ceiling decoration - gathering of the gods

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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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

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

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[...] //

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