Allegorical scene - Fame poised on the Globe (?)
Maker
(artist)
1675-1734
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
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
Keywords
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
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.
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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