Female figures playing cymbals and drum (recto)
Maker
(artist)
1734-1802
1734-1802
Title
Female figures playing cymbals and drum (recto)
Date of Production
1700 - 1799
Medium
graphite, pen and brown ink and brown wash (recto), graphite, pen and brown ink (verso) on laid paper
Dimensions
Height: 24 cm
Width: 15.8 cm
Width: 15.8 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.3876
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
a French collection (?) based on French instructions to a mountmaker on a formerly attached label); Reverend G.B. Mountford; purchased from him by Colnaghi (London), 28 October 1946; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 3 February 1947, for £12; Witt Bequest 1952
Literature
Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 41
p. 41
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Verso: upper right corner, graphite: "223 [or 2B] / Allegri". Mount (removed): Recto: lower right, graphite: "598 / 33 1/2 | 25 1/2"; bottom right corner, graphite: "A13999"; lower centre, graphite: "faire les trais a la sepia"
Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).
Inscription: Verso: upper right corner, graphite: "223 [or 2B] / Allegri". Mount (removed): Recto: lower right, graphite: "598 / 33 1/2 | 25 1/2"; bottom right corner, graphite: "A13999"; lower centre, graphite: "faire les trais a la sepia"
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