Monodon murex shell (Chicoreus cornucervi)
Maker
(artist)
1700-1799
Formerly attributed to
(artist)
1647-1717
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
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).
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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