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Teatro San Carlo and the side of the Palazzo Reale, Naples

Maker

(artist)
1820-1849

Title

Teatro San Carlo and the side of the Palazzo Reale, Naples

Date of Production

1820 - 1849

Medium

graphite, pen and blue and black ink on wove paper, with black ink framing lines, left deckle edge from a sketchbook

Dimensions

Height: 23.6 cm
Width: 35.9 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.114

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

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Provenance

anonymous sale, Sotheby's (London), 8 June 1972, lot 229 (with D.1984.AB.113); purchased there by Professor Anthony Blunt, London (1907-1983); Blunt Bequest via the Art Fund 1984 [annotated sale catalogue in Blunt Archives, Special Collections, box 499]

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto, outside pictorial area: upper right corner, graphite, cut off: "4" or "9"?; upper right corner, graphite: "b"; lower right, blue ink, artist's hand: "Strada S Carlo in Napoli"; lower right, graphite: "D155(2) / Blunt 114 //". Verso: upper left corner, graphite: "114 / Senape / Bt. Sotheby / ? 1972 //".

Collector's mark: none.

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