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Architectural composition

Maker

Attributed to
(artist)
1720-1778

Title

Architectural composition

Date of Production

(circa) 1747 - 1753

Medium

red chalk, graphite, pen and brown ink, brown and blue wash on laid paper, framed in an oval in red chalk and partially in brown ink; laid down on mount so unable to see verso

Dimensions

Height: 18 cm
Width: 11.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1978.PG.143

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; ceded by his executors to Samuel Woodburn (London), 1835; Woodburn estate sale, Christie’s (London), 4 - 8 June 1860, lot 585 (with 4 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

Literature

Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 143
as attributed to Piranesi

Seilern, Count Antoine, Italian paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, SW7, London 1959; II
no. 143
pl. CIII
as by Piranesi, dated c. 1747-53

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. 10 ...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. 160 ...Less

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: unable to check as is laid down on mount; none evident in raking light.

Inscription: none visible on recto, according to Seilern's notes there is an inscription on the verso attributing this to Pannini.

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

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