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Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre

Maker

(artist)
1625-1695

Title

Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre

Date of Production

(circa) 1686

Medium

pen and brown ink, over some traces of black chalk, on laid paper, with brown ink framing lines

Dimensions

Height: 16 cm
Width: 28.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1982.JW.27

Mode of Acquisition

John Witt, Art Fund bequest & grant aid, 1982

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Notes

Engraved by Bouttats as an illustration to Enrico Caterino Davila's Historia de las Guerras Civiles de Francia published by Jan Baptist Verdussen (Antwerp, 1686 - see impression at the British Museum, 1868,0208.7).

Provenance

Frederick Richard Meatyard, London (1881-1966); purchased there by Sir John Witt, London (1907-1982), L.646a, July 1932 (30 shillings); John Witt Bequest via the Art Fund, 1982

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: “b” or “P” (no match in Heawood).

Inscription: Verso: centre, graphite: “1”; lower centre, graphite, John Witt’s inventory number: “198a”. [the ‘a’ superscript].

Collector's mark: Verso: lower left edge, stamped in black ink: Sir John Witt (L.646a).

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