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Design for a ceiling panel - Allegory (for the Library in Heath House, Headley, Hampshire)

Maker

(artist)
1675-1734

Title

Design for a ceiling panel - Allegory (for the Library in Heath House, Headley, Hampshire)

Medium

black and red chalk on laid paper, framed with red chalk in an oval

Dimensions

Height: 37.3 cm
Width: 27.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3502

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 112; purchased there by Colnaghi (London) on behalf of Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), for £14; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

An exhibition of paintings and drawings by Sir James Thornhill, Guildhall Art Gallery, London, 04/06/1958-10/07/1958

Literature

Paulson, Ronald, Hogarth: the 'Modern Moral Subject' 1697-1732, Cambridge, Lutterworth Press, 1991
p. 355, n. 7

Cray, June, 'Paintings by Thornhill at Chinnor' in 'The Burlington Magazine', November 1990 - 789-93; 132, no. 1052
p. 793

Ananoff, Alexander, L'Opera completa di Boucher, Milano: Rizzoli 1980 ...More

Croft-Murray, Edward, Decorative painting in England, 1537-1837: Early Tudor to Sir James Thornhill, London, 1962; 1

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 52 ...Less

Inscriptions

Inscription: Library ciel. for Huggins, for a Lady Etc.

Inscription: IV

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