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Design for a medal

Maker

(artist)
1809-1847

Title

Design for a medal

Date of Production

1847

Medium

graphite and watercolour on paper, cut out along the outlines and glued down on a sheet of notebook paper, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 25 cm
Width: 20.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.4780

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

by descent to the artist's granddaughter, Dora Benecke (1876-1962); given by her to Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, February 1949; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Ward Jones, Peter, 'A Mendelssohn drawing book and other documents in the Courtauld Institute of Art, London' in 'Mendelssohn Studien', 2011 - pp. 181-90; 17
p. 190

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Support (historic): centre: crowned oval containing a figure.

Inscription: Recto: within the drawing, green watercolour over graphite: “AN EINE FLEISSIGE KLEINE MARIE.”. Notebook paper support, Recto: lower centre, black ink, hand of the artist’s daughter, Marie: “Orden fur mich von meinem / Vater gezeichnet & gemalt im Jahr / 1847. / M Benecke //”.

Collector's mark: none.

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