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Design for a fireplace and overmantel

Maker

(artist)
1700-1799

Title

Design for a fireplace and overmantel

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink, grey wash on laid paper, executed using a ruler, hinged at the left edge to a historic support

Dimensions

Height: 32.9 cm
Width: 19.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4246

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

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

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: elaborate, large circular coat-of-arms (not found in Heawood).

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

Inscription: Verso: lower centre, graphite, circled: “578”; lower right, graphite: “10-”. Support (historic), Recto: lower centre, graphite: “Lx [?]”; lower right, graphite, unclear: “Our [?]”; lower left corner, graphite, Witt number: “42462”; lower right corner, graphite: “#6”.

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