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Two designs for ceiling decoration

Maker

(artist)
1700-1799

Title

Two designs for ceiling decoration

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink, grey wash on laid paper, hinged at the upper edge to a historic mount

Dimensions

Height: 20.5 cm
Width: 35.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.3982

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

Eugène Rodrigues, Paris (b. 1853), L.897; Paul Prouté (Paris); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

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

Literature

Architectural Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1961
cat. no. 29

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left centre: Arms of Amsterdam above cursive “AJ” (larger variant of Heawood 391 - Holland 1689).

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Eugène Rodrigues (L.897). Verso: lower right corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Inscription: Recto: lower centre edge, grey ink: a scale, numbered from “0” to “10”; lower right corner, graphite: “30”. Verso: centre, graphite: “38”. Mount (historic), Recto: centre (hidden under drawing), graphite: “38”; lower centre edge, graphite: “L99”; lower right corner, graphite: “#11 Opnmt 300-”.

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