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Dog howling (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1686-1755

Title

Dog howling (recto)

Date of Production

1700 - 1750

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash (recto), graphite (verso) on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 10.1 cm
Width: 15.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.128

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

Reliable Venetian Hand, Venice (1760s-1780s) (his inscription at lower right, matches L.3005c, though Lugt does not identify or list any information); Benjamin West, London (1738-1820), L.419 (blindstamped, lower left); Thomas Dimsdale, London (1758-1823), L.2426 (verso, lower left); Samuel Woodburn, London (1786-1853); Woodburn estate sale, Christie’s (London), 12-14 June 1860, lot 1087 (one of 26 drawings, described as 'Head and figure subjects, by A. del Sarto, B. Luti, Pontormo, &c.' so it is the recto inscription '1087/26' that places it here); 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

Disegni di una collezione veneziana del settecento, Istituto di Stora dell'Arte della Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, 1966
no. 82 on p. 72
pl. 82
not exhibited, represented with a photo, and included in the catalogue

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 128
pl. LXXXVIII
dated 1st half of 18th c

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
p. 226, no. 11 ...More

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. 163 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Recto, lower right corner, fragment: half of a crown.

Collector's mark: Recto: lower left corner, blindstamped: Benjamin West (L.419); lower right, pen and brown ink: Reliable Venetian Collector, though not identified on Lugt (L.3005c). Verso: lower left, stamped in black: Thomas Dimsdale (L.2426).

Inscription: Recto: upper centre, graphite, Woodburn sale lot number and number of drawings in that lot: "1087/26"; lower right edge, brown ink, hand of Reliable Venetian Collector (L.3005c): "Francesco Simonini Parmeg.o".

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