Design for a ceiling panel - Allegory (for the Library in Heath House, Headley, Hampshire)
Maker
(artist)
1675-1734
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
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
Keywords
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
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
Inscription: IV
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