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Design for staircase decoration - Apollo and Marsyas

Maker

(artist)
1675-1734

Title

Design for staircase decoration - Apollo and Marsyas

Medium

graphite, pen and ink (brown), watercolour, paint (gold) on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 18 cm
Width: 15.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4401

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

Nathaniel Hone, London (1718-1784); anonymous sale, Sotheby's (London), 8 February 1950, lot 4 (as 'Apollo and Marsyas'); purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), 23 March 1950, for £10; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Architectural Drawings from the Witt Collection, University of Nottingham, 01/05/1972-01/06/1972

Drawings from the Witt Collection, University of Southampton, 16/02/1970-04/03/1970

Architectural Drawings from the Witt Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/07/1961-01/10/1961

Literature

Architectural Drawings from the Witt Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 1961
cat. no. 8

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 52

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: possibly at centre, though obscured by repair added to verso.

Inscription: 78

Inscription: 19 x 12 1/2

Inscription: 7

Inscription: £5

Inscription: + A [...] was the / [...] of [...] + Sir Revelry // [?]

Inscription: Lay on Gold Cream

Inscription: A17165 / E/-/- //

Label: Nathaniel Hone, eminent portrait painter and collector. / Born in Dublin, 1730, died 1784. He was one of the / Members of the Royal Academy at its foundation. //

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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