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Jacob relating his dreams

Maker

(artist)
1740-1821

After
(artist)
1483-1520

Title

Jacob relating his dreams

Date of Production

1781

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink, watercolour on laid paper, laid down on a blue paper support

Dimensions

Height: 12.1 cm
Width: 20.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.799

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

Spencer (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, n.d.; Witt Bequest 1952

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, Hand-list of the drawings in the Witt Collection, London, 1956
p. 38

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper left corner, brown ink: "27"; lower left edge, brown ink, signed with initials and dated: "NP1781". Support (historic), Recto: lower left, graphite: an arrow pointing upwards at signature/date in drawing; lower right, graphite: "N. Pocock / 1781". Mount (removed, see photo), Recto: lower centre, graphite: "Jacob relating his dreams / Study after Raphael's Fresco in the Loggia, Vatican; lower right, graphite: Nicholas Pocock / 1741(?) 1821 / Signed. NP1781".

Collector's mark: Support (historic), Recto: lower left, stamped in black: Sir Robert Witt (L.2228b).

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