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Army advancing

Maker

(artist)
1610-1664

Title

Army advancing

Date of Production

(circa) 1640 - 1650

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink on laid paper, laid down on a historic mount which in turn is laid down on Seilern's mount

Dimensions

Height: 11.5 cm
Width: 16 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.122

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

Provenance

John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll (1693-1770) [according to Popham 1935]; possibly his estate sale, T. Philipe (London), 21 May 1798, lot 28 (listed under della Bella as 'Seven, spirited - pen sketches'); Nathaniel Hone, London (1718-1784), L.2793 (lower right); William Esdaile, London (1758-1837) [according to Seilern his initials were erased, presumably L.2617; doesn't say where, not now in evidence on the drawing thought the historic mount is laid down on Seilern's mount so could be on the verso]; Sir Thomas Lawrence, London (1769-1830), L.2445 (lower left); ceded by his executors to Samuel Woodburn (London), 1835; 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.121, 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. 122
pl. LXXXII
dated c. 1640-50

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. 7

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. 124, no. 5

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check as is laid down (none visible in raking light).

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, brown ink, signed?: “S: Bella”. Mount (historic), Recto: upper centre, graphite, lot in Christie's 1860 sale: “224/16”; lower left, graphite: “3302”; lower centre edge, brown ink: “Della Bella”; lower right corner, graphite, circled: “7”. Unable to see verso to check for further inscriptions.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, blindstamped: Sir Thomas Lawrence (L.2445); lower right, stamped in black: Nathaniel Hone (L.2793).

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