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Design for a circular temple - Tempio del Sole

Maker

(artist)
1688-1782

Title

Design for a circular temple - Tempio del Sole

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

black chalk, pen and brown ink, grey wash on thick laid paper with dark brown ink framing lines, executed using a ruler and compass

Dimensions

Height: 47.4 cm
Width: 31.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.106

Mode of Acquisition

Anthony Blunt, Art Fund bequest & grant aid, 1984

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords






Provenance

Professor Anthony Blunt, London (1907-1983); Blunt Bequest via the Art Fund 1984

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, black chalk: "tenpio del sol" [sic]. Verso: upper right, graphite, neg. no. from Courtauld photographic survey: "323/62/27a"; upper right, graphite: "9"; upper centre, graphite, Blunt's hand: "Antonio Visentini".

Collector's mark: none.

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