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Feigned relief of cupids with a beehive

Maker

(artist)
1695-1754

Title

Feigned relief of cupids with a beehive

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

pen and brown ink, brown wash, white bodycolour on blue (now faded to grey) laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 19.8 cm
Width: 17.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.77

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

Montagu Henry Edmund Towneley-Bertie, 8th Earl of Abingdon (1887-1963); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 21 May 1935, lot 13; purchased there by Colnaghi (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, 26 February 1936 (£2 according to Colnaghi, £3 and in part exchange according to Witt); Witt Bequest 1952

Inscriptions

Watermark: Recto, right centre edge, fragment: shield with a bend.

Inscription: none.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower right edge, stamped in black ink: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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