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Torrente Nisso

Maker

(artist)
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

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

Literature

Old Master Early English drawings, Yvonne ffrench, London, 1968
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.

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