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Two designs for a wall-bracket

Maker

(artist)
1700-1799

Title

Two designs for a wall-bracket

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

pen and grey ink, grey wash, executed using a ruler and compass, on laid paper, a vertical line in graphite drawn down the centre of the sheet, hinged at the left edge to a historic support

Dimensions

Height: 33.5 cm
Width: 20 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4244

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


brackets (lighting devices)

Provenance

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

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: large fleur-de-lis.

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

Inscription: Recto: right upper edge, a rectangle drawn in graphite with dimensions: “26 ¼” wide by “10 ½” high; right centre edge, graphite: “30 pcrs”. Support (historic), Recto: upper left corner, graphite: “#3”; lower right, graphite, unclear: “Our [?]”; lower left corner, graphite: “4244”; lower centre edge, graphite: “^”.

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