Study for decoration of a church (recto)
Study of two male heads and decoration of a church (verso)
Maker
(artist)
1884-1937
1884-1937
Title
Study for decoration of a church (recto)
Study of two male heads and decoration of a church (verso)
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
Width: 50 cm
Accession Number
D.1962.GC.393
Mode of Acquisition
Gabrielle Cross, gift, 1962
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Provenance
by descent to the artist's niece, Miss Gabrielle Cross (1910-1997); Gabrielle Cross Gift 1962
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”.
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”.
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