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Scissortail Sargeant from Mauritius

Maker

(artist)
1748-1814

Title

Scissortail Sargeant from Mauritius

Date of Production

(circa) 1774 - 1781

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, watercolour, white bodycolour on laid paper, with brown ink and green watercolour framing lines, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 17.5 cm
Width: 25.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1958.XX.4663

Mode of Acquisition

Unknown, transfer, before 1958

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Provenance

unknown, possibly transferred from the Witt Library

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Backing sheet: right of centre: “VANDER LEY”.

Inscription: Recto, all brown ink, artist’s hand: upper left: “Sparus”; lower left corner: “P. Sonnerat Pinx.”; lower centre: “le Déboiteur de l’Isle de france.”. Verso (backing sheet): lower right corner, graphite: “569.”.

Collector's mark: none.

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