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Anamorphosis with rider and hybrid horse/lion mount

Maker

(artist)
1500-1599

Follower of
(artist)
1527-1585

Title

Anamorphosis with rider and hybrid horse/lion mount

Date of Production

1500 - 1599

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink on three pieces of laid paper joined together, framed in brown ink lines, cut into a wedge

Dimensions

Height: 29.8 cm
Width: 56.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3843

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

distortion




Provenance

Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d. (£9); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Nameless: anonymous drawings of 15th and 16th century Italy, Moray Art Centre, Findhorn, Scotland, 23/04/2010-22/08/2010

Literature

Nameless: anonymous drawings of 15th and 16th century Italy, Moray Art Centre, Findhorn, Scotland, 2010
no. 15
ill. on p. 55 (digitally manipulated)

Inscriptions

Watermark: Recto: right of centre: circle containing a quadruped? 47 mm in diameter.

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: Verso: on a separate small round piece of paper adhered, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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