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Dido and Aeneas

Maker

(artist)
1675-1734

Title

Dido and Aeneas

Medium

graphite, pen and ink (brown), wash (brown) on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines, laid down on an old support

Dimensions

Height: 16.2 cm
Width: 11.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.776

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

John Chaloner Smith (1827-1895), L.2295; Spencer (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, by January 1926 (when published in 'The Connoisseur"); Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

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. 6
Illus. no. VI

Inscriptions

Inscription: Verso (hidden under backing sheet, visible via transmitted light): lower centre, pen and brown ink: "Dido + Aineas [sic]" (could be same hand as title on Support Recto).

Inscription: Sir James Thornhill / B.1676 D 1734. //

Inscription: 3__3

Collector's mark: collector's mark of John Chaloner Smith (L.2295)

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

Inscription: Dido and AEneas.

Inscription: Sir Jas Thornhill.

Inscription: Thornhill.

Inscription: [...]er Smith Coll.

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