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Judgment scene (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1675-1734

Title

Judgment scene (recto)

Medium

pen and ink (brown), wash (grey) with brown ink framing lines and two graphite slashes at the centre left and right edges (recto), graphite (verso), on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 18.6 cm
Width: 14.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.760

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), L.2228b, by January 1926 (when published in 'The Connoisseur'); Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Justice in Art - From the Modern Movement until the Present Day, Fundacion Carlos de Amberes & Madrid & Spain, 15/03/2007-22/04/2007

Literature

Justice in Art - From the Modern Movement until the Present Day, Fundacion Carlos de Amberes, Madrid, 2007
pp. 270, 272
Fig. p. 271

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 50

Baker, C.H. Collins, 'Some Eighteenth-Century Drawings in the Witt Collection' in 'The Connoisseur', January 1926
p. 5
Fig. no. IV

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, right centre edge: small crown above small letters "GR" (top is possibly cut off by edge - if so could match the countermark to Heawood 3696 - dated 1724-26).

Inscription: Sir J. Thornhill

Collector's mark: collector's mark of Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b)

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