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Design for stage scenery

Maker

(artist)
1684-1737

Title

Date of Production

(circa) 1700 - 1715

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, laid down

Dimensions

Height: 29.5 cm
Width: 21.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.126

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

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 1 (14 drawings described as 'Various, by Albani, Bernini, Briccio, and others'); 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

Exhibition History

Scenes and Stages - Creating Architectural Illusion, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 26/06/2008-27/07/2008

Literature

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 126
pl. LXXXVI
dated early 18th century

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, no.8 on p. 226

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. 129
pl. LIV

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermarks: centre: large but obscured by drawing – a canopy above a coat of arms?. Backing sheet: lower centre: a sun with ten points (not found in Heawood).

Inscription: Recto: lower centre edge, brown ink, artist's hand (according to Seilern): “Tellari 13. Telle 2” and beside that in a different brown ink: “dell Sig:e Serafino Brici” and beside that a graphite inscription has been erased and is now mostly illegible. Verso (hidden under backing sheet, visible via transmitted light): upper right, brown ink, underlined: “13[?]21”. Verso (backing sheet): upper centre, brown ink, underlined: “No. 1562.” (not in Lugt); right lower edge, graphite: “8”; lower right corner, graphite: “12:12 / 5 . 3 / [sum line] / 15 15 / 111 10 / 1”.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, blindstamped: Thomas Lawrence (L.2445).

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