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Title-page for Aristotle's 'Rhetoric'

Maker

(artist)
1673-1733

Title

Title-page for Aristotle's 'Rhetoric'

Date of Production

1718

Medium

pen and grey ink, grey wash, white bodycolour on laid paper, incised for transfer, with grey ink framing lines, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 13.2 cm
Width: 7.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.763

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

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Provenance

Spencer (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto, all within the drawing: upper centre in the banner, graphite: “LARETORIC / D’ARISTOTE //”; lower centre on plinth, grey ink, signed by the artist, with a macron over the “B”: “B Picart”; lower left corner, grey ink, signed by the artist?: “Picart delineavite”.

Collector's mark: Verso (backing sheet): lower left corner, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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