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Piazza dei Mercanti, Milan

Maker

(artist)
1761-1823

Title

Piazza dei Mercanti, Milan

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink and grey wash on laid paper, framed in grey ink and executed using a ruler and compass, as attested to by numerous pinpricks in the sheet

Dimensions

Height: 31.8 cm
Width: 42.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3529

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

Wheeler (London); purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 13 March 1944; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 20 March 1944 (£4, as a view in Milan); Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: "J HONIG / & / ZOONEN" (same as but much larger than Heawood 3344 - Berne 1787).

Inscription: Recto: lower left corner, brown ink, signed by the artist?: "Galliari Gasparo fec". Verso: lower right, graphite, erased and encircled: “4719[?]”; lower right corner, brown ink: “Lot 22”; lower right corner, graphite: “5”.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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