Torrente Nisso
Maker
(artist)
1758-1823
1758-1823
Title
Torrente Nisso
Medium
graphite, pen and brown ink and brown wash on wove paper, with brown ink framing lines
Dimensions
Height: 39.8 cm
Width: 53.6 cm
Width: 53.6 cm
Accession Number
D.1963.WF.4731
Mode of Acquisition
Witt Fund, purchase, 1963
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Provenance
Yvonne ffrench (London); purchased from her by The Courtauld via the Witt Fund, November 1963 (£85.10s)
Exhibition History
Neo-Classical Drawings, The Courtauld Gallery, London, November 1972-December 1972
Italian Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries from the Witt
Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/03/1971-01/04/1971
Old Master Early English drawings, Yvonne ffrench, London, 05/11/1968-16/11/1968
Italian Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries from the Witt
Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 01/03/1971-01/04/1971
Old Master Early English drawings, Yvonne ffrench, London, 05/11/1968-16/11/1968
Literature
Old Master Early English drawings, Yvonne ffrench, London, 1968
cat. no. 31
cat. no. 31
Inscriptions
Watermark: Watermark: none.
Inscription: Recto: within the drawing, on two temples at left centre, brown ink: “AMOR” and “VENERIS”; lower left corner of margin, brown ink: “5”; lower centre margin, brown ink: “Il Fiume nò Torente Nisso in vicinanza d’Atene / atraversi[?]”.
Collector's mark: none.
Inscription: Recto: within the drawing, on two temples at left centre, brown ink: “AMOR” and “VENERIS”; lower left corner of margin, brown ink: “5”; lower centre margin, brown ink: “Il Fiume nò Torente Nisso in vicinanza d’Atene / atraversi[?]”.
Collector's mark: none.
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