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Design for a Quarantore

Maker

(artist)
born 1735

Title

Design for a Quarantore

Date of Production

(circa) 1735

Medium

graphite, pen and grey and brown ink, grey wash, incised for transfer, on laid paper, executed using a ruler and compass, verso prepared for transfer with red chalk (now laid down on Japanese tissue)

Dimensions

Height: 41.5 cm
Width: 27.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.111

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

Literature

Blunt, Anthony, 'Naples in the eighteenth century: A. Architecture' in 'Burlington Magazine', April 1979 - pp. 250, 254-59; 121, 913
p. 258
fig. 84 on p. 255
see attached PDF

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: circle - unable to see what it contains.

Inscription: Recto: upper right, brown ink: "Bartolonis Granucci"; lower right corner, graphite, circled: "3185". Verso: left upper edge, graphite: "N: 918 / 713012 //"; upper right, graphite: "£ 10-"; lower left, graphite: "211"; more righting in graphite at lower left but too obscured by Japanese tissue to read.

Collector's mark: none.

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