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Three figure studies (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1720-1778

Title

Three figure studies (recto)

Date of Production

1745 - 1765

Medium

red chalk (recto), graphite (verso) on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 23.4 cm
Width: 9.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3961

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

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Provenance

Dr Edmund Schilling (1888-1974); acquired from him in an exchange by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left centre edge: top of a circle topped by a large cross with each arm ending in a fleur-de-lis (no matches in Heawood or Churchill).

Inscription: Verso: centre, graphite: “52a”; lower centre edge, graphite: “Piranesi”. Mount (removed, recorded in Museum Plus), Recto: ink: “G.B. Piranesi”.

Collector's mark: none.

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