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Jacob and the Angel

Maker

(artist)
1575-1640

Title

Jacob and the Angel

Date of Production

(August) 1613

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash, white bodycolour (now much discoloured) on blue laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 26.3 cm
Width: 23.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.446

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

Spencer (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Verso: upper right corner, on remnant of a former backing sheet now mostly removed, graphite, circled: “35”; centre, brown ink: “i6i3 . G . M.R. agosto”; centre, graphite: “Giov. Mauro Rovere”; below that a few lines in graphite erased, can only read “1570”; lower centre, graphite, hard to read: “A[…]no”; lower right corner, on remnant of a former backing sheet now mostly removed, graphite: “Giovanni / Maria [sic] / Rovere / 1570-1640 //”.

Collector's mark: none.

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