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Design for a ceiling in the Villa Pamphili, Rome

Maker

Giuseppe Manocchi (Artists)
1731-1782

Title

Design for a ceiling in the Villa Pamphili, Rome

Date of Production

1775

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink, grey wash on laid paper, with grey ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 47 cm
Width: 66.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.879

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

Percy Mordaunt Barnard, Tunbridge Wells (1868-1941); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), L.2228b, probably between 1921 and 1922 [as it was lot 484 in cat. no. 131, and on https://www.robinhalwas.com/007900-pm-barnard-stock-catalogues cat. no. 128 is probably 1921 and cat. no. 136 probably 1922]; Witt Bequest 1952

Exhibition History

Neo-Classical Drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, November 1972-December 1972

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, left centre: Strasburg lily above "LVG"; Countermark: Recto, right centre: "VI" (the letters "LVG" are nearly monogram and none of the marks in Churchill nor Heawood matches this).

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

Inscription: Recto: right centre edge, grey ink, described, signed and dated: "Sofitto di villa panfilli G.M..1.7.7.5."; lower left corner, graphite, Witt number: “879”; lower right margin, graphite: erased and now illegible, can only see “?” and “[…]chi”. Verso: lower centre, graphite, Witt number: “879”.

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