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Design for an ornamental candle-bracket

Maker

(Artists)
1500-1599

Title

Design for an ornamental candle-bracket

Date of Production

1500 - 1599

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink on laid paper, on a historic support

Dimensions

Height: 17.3 cm
Width: 8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.463

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

William Amhurst Tyssen-Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Hackney (1835-1909); by descent to his wife, Margaret Susan Mitford (1835-1919); her estate sale, London, Sotheby's, 14 December 1921; purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952); Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: Recto, upper left edge: fragment of a circle. Support (historic), Recto: upper left edge, fragment of a three-leaf flower.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower centre, brown ink (different from drawing): “Pierino”.

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