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Feluccas in harbour

Maker

(artist)
1610-1664

Title

Feluccas in harbour

Date of Production

(circa) 1644 - 1647

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, with black ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 15.2 cm
Width: 23 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.121

Mode of Acquisition

Count Antoine Seilern, bequest, 1978

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

feluccas

Provenance

Thomas Dimsdale, London (1758-1823), L.2426 (verso, lower left); Samuel Woodburn (London); Woodburn estate sale, Christie’s (London), 4 - 8 June 1860, lot 224 (16 drawings of 'Military and other subjects, by Della Bella' including D.1978.PG.116.1-.2, D.1978.PG.117.1-.3, D.1978.PG.119.1-.3, D.1978.PG.122, D.1978.PG.126 ); purchased there by Sir Thomas Phillips (1792-1872); by descent to his grandson, Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick (1856-1938); purchased from the Fenwick estate by Count Antoine Seilern, London (1901-1978), 1946; Princes Gate Bequest 1978

Literature

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 121
pl. LXXXI
dated c. 1644-47

Popham, A.E., 'Sir Thomas Phillipps as a Patron of Artists and a Collector of Pictures and Drawings' in 'The Formation of the Phillipps Library from 1841-1872 (Phillipps Studies, IV), Cambridge 1956
App. B, p. 226, no. 6

Popham, A.E., Catalogue of drawings in the collection formed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, now in the possession of his grandson T. FitzRoy Phillipps Fenwick of Thirlestaine House Cheltenham, London 1935
p. 123, no. 2g

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left corner, stamped in black: Thomas Dimsdale (L.2426).

Inscription: none.

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