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Design for a wardrobe

Maker

(artist)
1800-1899

Title

Design for a wardrobe

Date of Production

(circa) 1800

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink, grey wash on laid paper, executed using a ruler, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 33.5 cm
Width: 22.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4250

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





wardrobes (case furniture)


Provenance

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

Exhibition History

Neo-Classical Drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, November 1972-December 1972

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, centre: “V D” [Vanderley?] .

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

Inscription: Recto: left centre edge, grey ink: a scale running vertically, numbered from the bottom “1” to “10” and then by tens up to “50”. Verso (backing sheet): lower left corner, graphite, Witt number: “4250”; lower right corner, graphite, second number erased: “#13 / 25 //”.

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