Study for decoration of a church (recto)
Study of two male heads and decoration of a church (verso)

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Maker

(artist)
1884-1937

Title

Study for decoration of a church (recto)
Study of two male heads and decoration of a church (verso)

Date of Production

(circa) 1925

Medium

graphite and bodycolour, squared in graphite (recto), black chalk with stumping and graphite (verso); multiple pinholes at all four corners and upper, lower and right centre edges (left edge has probably been trimmed); large loss at right upper and lower edge; right edge had been previously folded under

Dimensions

Height: 76 cm
Width: 50 cm

Object Number

D.1962.GC.393

Mode of Acquisition

Gabrielle Cross, gift, 1962

Credit

Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Recto: graphite, upper centre margin, graphite: “Centre / OK”; upper and lower margins label each grid sequentially in graphite from “1” to “7”; left margin grid labelled in graphite, descending sequentially from “13” to “1”; right margin grid labelled in graphite, ascending sequentially from “1” to “12”; upper left (within drawing), graphite: “IGNEM . VENI / MITTERE . INTER / .RAM Et QVID VOLC / NIST . VT / ACCENDATVR.”; upper right (within drawing), purple bodycolour over graphite: “FACTVS . EST / IN . CORDE . MEO / QVASI . IGNIS / EXAESTVANS”; right centre (within roundel), purple bodycolour over graphite: “ECCE . MATER . TUA”; lower centre (on plinth), black ink over graphite: “ERGO . VOS . ESTIS . SOLI. HOMINES.’ / ET . MIHI . EST . COR . SICVT . Et VOBIS”; lower left and right (within drawing), white bodycolour: “ACCEDET . HOMO” and “AD . COR . ALTVM”. Verso: upper right, graphite: “Edinburgh Church / Decoration”.

Provenance

by descent to the artist's niece, Miss Gabrielle Cross (1910-1997); Gabrielle Cross Gift 1962

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