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Tomb of Theodoric at Ravenna

Maker

(artist)
1720-1778

Title

Tomb of Theodoric at Ravenna

Date of Production

1740 - 1755

Medium

red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 11.2 cm
Width: 16.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3877

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





royal tombs

Provenance

Dr Sydney H. Nicholson, Chislehurst, Kent (1875-1947); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 5 May 1937, lot 4 (along with D.1952.RW.2726); purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 3 February 1947, for £5; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Disegni di Giambattista Piranesi, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 01/09/1978-05/11/1978

Architectural Drawings from the Witt Collection, University of Nottingham, 01/05/1972-01/06/1972

Italian Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries from the Witt
Collection
, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/03/1971-01/04/1971 ...More

Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970

A Selection of Drawings from The Witt/Courtauld Collections, University of Sussex, Falmer, 1964

Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 17/11/1962-22/12/1962

Architectural Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/07/1961-01/10/1961

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 01/09/1960-01/10/1960

Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1958-59 ...Less

Literature

Disegni di Giambattista Piranesi, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 1978
no. 1
pl. 1

Italian Old Master drawings. Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, The National Art Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington, 1970
cat. no. 57

Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 87 ...More

Architectural Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1961
cat. no. 39
no. 39

Old Master Drawings from the Witt Collection, Auckland City Art Gallery, 1960
cat. no. 43

Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1958 - 1959
cat. no. 13

Thomas, Hylton, The drawings of Giovanni Battista Piranesi, London and New York 1954
p. 35

John Marciari, Sublime Ideas: Drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Morgan Library and Museum, Paul Hoberton Publshing, 2023
pp. 27-28 p. 47 p. 222 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper centre edge, brown ink (above is evidence of another inscription that has been trimmed away), probably artist’s hand: “Tempio di Ravenna”; lower left corner, brown ink: “Piranesi”. Mount (removed, recorded in Museum Plus), Verso: ink: “Piranesi”.

Collector's mark: Mount (removed, recorded in Museum Plus), Recto: stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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