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Design for stained-glass window (recto)

Maker

(artist)
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

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

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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

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.

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