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Papal procession in Rome possibly depicted in front of Saint Peter's

Maker

(artist)
1610-1664

Title

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 23 cm
Width: 20 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.420

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

William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney (1835-1909); by descent to his wife, Margaret Susan Mitford (1835-1919); her estate sale, Sotheby's (London), 14 December 1921, lot 4 (with 5 others, including D.1952.RW.424); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b (12 shillings); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Captured on Paper, Animals in the Prints and Drawings Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 20/06/2002-11/08/2002

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

catalogue untraced, San Francisco, 1938

Literature

Anthony Blunt and Philip Troutman, Master Drawings from the Witt and Courtauld Collections, 1962
cat. no. 70

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: right centre edge: hand with a wide cuff, fingers spread pointing downward, in the middle of the palm an “S” (no match in Heawood or Briquet).

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink: “138”. Mount (removed and now missing, recorded in file), Verso: ink: “certainly not [this deleted in pen in a different hand] (Della Bella) / S, //”.

Collector's mark: Mount (removed and now missing, recorded in file), Verso: stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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