Design for stained-glass window (recto)
Maker
(artist)
1829-1896
1829-1896
Title
Design for stained-glass window (recto)
Date of Production
1853
Medium
graphite, watercolour and bodycolour, framed in an arch with graphite lines (recto), graphite (verso) on wove paper
Dimensions
Height: 4.9 cm
Width: 30.7 cm
Width: 30.7 cm
Accession Number
D.1952.RW.4356.2
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
Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952) between October and November 1947 (based on Colnaghi inv. no. on verso); Witt Bequest 1952
Exhibition History
The Drawings of John Everett Millais, Bolton Museum and Art Gallery, Bolton, 7 July - 4 August 1979, and at four other venues in the UK, 07/04/1979-16/12/1979
unnumbered typescript - title was possibly 'A Selection of Drawings from The Witt/Courtauld Collections [as exhibited in 1964 at University of Sussex, Falmer]', Nottingham University, 1966
unnumbered typescript - title was possibly 'A Selection of Drawings from The Witt/Courtauld Collections [as exhibited in 1964 at University of Sussex, Falmer]', Nottingham University, 1966
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Inscription: Recto: upper left, red watercolour, signed with monogram and dated: "JEM 1853". Verso: left centre, graphite, circled: "28"; right centre, graphite, Colnaghi inventory number: "A 14921".
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Recto: upper left, red watercolour, signed with monogram and dated: "JEM 1853". Verso: left centre, graphite, circled: "28"; right centre, graphite, Colnaghi inventory number: "A 14921".
Collector's mark: none.
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