Title-page for Aristotle's 'Rhetoric'
Maker
(artist)
1673-1733
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
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
Keywords
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).
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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