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Allegorical scene - Fame poised on the Globe (?)

Maker

(artist)
1675-1734

Title

Allegorical scene - Fame poised on the Globe (?)

Medium

pen and brown ink, grey wash on laid paper, adhered at the corners to a historic paper support, with remnants of brown ink framing lines and the upper right corner made up

Dimensions

Height: 17.8 cm
Width: 10.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.778

Mode of Acquisition

Robert Clermont Witt, bequest, 1952

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, 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, 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. V

Inscriptions

Inscription: Support (historic), Recto: lower left, graphite: Sir James Thornhill 1739.

Collector's mark: Removed from verso or from a former mount? Now on modern mount (verso not visible as drawing is laid down on support): stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

Watermark: none.

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