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Three tritons and a siren - study for the decoration of the ceiling of Greenwich Hospital (?)

Maker

(artist)
1675-1734

Title

Medium

graphite, pen and ink (brown), wash (brown) on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 9.6 cm
Width: 18.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1952.RW.910

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

Benno Geiger, Italy (1882-1965); his sale, Sotheby's (London), 7 - 10 December 1920, lot 540; E. Parsons & Sons (London); purchased there by Sir Robert Witt, London (1872-1952), between 1921 and 1925 (6 shillings); 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
Illus. no. VII

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, lower left edge, fragment: a diagonal line, indicating the edge of a watermark.

Inscription: 505

Inscription: Thornhill 910

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

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