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Design for an external staircase (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1685 - 1761 (Life dates)

Title

Design for an external staircase (recto)

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

graphite, pen and grey ink, grey wash (recto), graphite, pen and brown ink (verso), on laid paper, executed using a ruler

Dimensions

Height: 31 cm
Width: 17.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.125

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

C. Apcher (London); purchased there by Professor Anthony Blunt, London (1907-1983), 1975 (£45); Blunt Bequest via the Art Fund 1984

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Recto: throughout the drawing, all in grey ink, artist's hand: "6po"; twice: "1 pied"; "1 to ifo"; "1t[superscript] o o"; lower left corner: "on doit a la premiere rampe monter / 11.. marches et / a la seconde 10.. elles ont 12 pouce's de / Giron Sur 6 pouces dhauteur / Ce qui fait 10 pieds 6 pouces qui est la / hauteur deletage //"; lower centre, brown ink, similar if not same hand: "projet d'escalier par Mr Rollin pour la / maison de Mr. de genas //". Verso: lower left, graphite: "EFO"; lower right, graphite: "100 5". Mount (removed, cut down and now in file): graphite: “Giullaume Rollin / of Nîmes / Apcher 1975 / £45 //".

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