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Monodon murex shell (Chicoreus cornucervi)

Maker

(artist)
1700-1799

Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1647-1717

Title

Monodon murex shell (Chicoreus cornucervi)

Date of Production

1777-1800

Medium

pen and brown ink, watercolour, white bodycolour, on laid paper, with black chalk framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 16.8 cm
Width: 21 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.754

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

Arnold Otto Meyer, Hamburg (1825-1913), L.1994; his estate sale, C.G. Boerner (Leipzig), 19 - 20 March 1914, lot 338; Max Ziegert (Frankfurt am Main); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d. (£1); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Second Nature, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 14/06/2000-03/09/2000

Inscriptions

Watermark: lower centre edge, fragment: tip of a small shield atop a more ornamental shield containing a star (nothing similar found in Heawood or Churchill).

Inscription: Verso: right lower edge, graphite: “Merian / Muresc ramosus / o inflotus”; lower right edge, graphite: “76.”.

Collector's mark: Verso: upper right corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b); lower right corner, stamped in blue ink: Arnold Otto Meyer (L.1994).

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