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View of the Farnese Gardens in Rome

Maker

(artist)
1770-1825

Title

View of the Farnese Gardens in Rome

Date of Production

1770 - 1825

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink, grey wash on wove paper

Dimensions

Height: 28.8 cm
Width: 43 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3969

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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Notes

This drawing and D.1952.RW.3968 appear to be related to a group of five drawings by Ferdinand Becker given to the British Museum by Archdeacon F.H.D Smythe in 1948 (inv. nos. 1948,0519.1-5).

Provenance

Archdeacon Francis Henry Dumville Smythe (1873-1966); given by him to Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 6

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Mount (removed, in portfolio from P&D), Recto: upper right, pen and brown ink: "35."; lower left, pen and brown ink: "In the Farneseian Garden."; lower right corner, graphite: "#1".

Collector's mark: none.

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