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Design for a brass lectern with an eagle

Maker

(artist)
1700-1799

Title

Design for a brass lectern with an eagle

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

graphite, pen and black ink, grey and yellow wash on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 35 cm
Width: 23 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.118

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

Lord Farnham; Alister Mathews, Bournemouth (1907-1985); purchased from him and presented to Professor Anthony Blunt, London (1907-1983), on the occasion of his retirement from The Courtauld, 1974; Blunt Bequest via the Art Fund 1984

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: large circle containing two eagles facing inward, flanking a heart shape? Above them is a large crown (no match in Heawood, Churchill or Piccard; Peter Bower suggested could be Arms of Colbert, 18th century, popular in Auvergne).

Inscription: Recto: a scale in black ink runs along the right edge of the sheet, numbered: "n 2 3 4 5 6 piedi". Verso: lower centre, brown ink: "Brass Reading Desk". Scrap removed from mount, now in file: graphite: Lectern Blunt Coll / 158-2* / ?French / c. 1790-1810 / C69 / £25 P //”. False margin (removed, recorded in file): graphite: “Collection of Lord Farnham”.

Collector's mark: none.

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