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Design for a pulpit with scientific instruments in the foreground

Maker

Germany (North) mid 18th century (artist)
1725-1775

Title

Design for a pulpit with scientific instruments in the foreground

Date of Production

(circa) 1750

Medium

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

Dimensions

Height: 39 cm
Width: 29.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.133

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

Alister Mathews, Bournemouth (1907-1985); purchased from him by Professor Anthony Blunt, London (1907-1983), n.d.; Blunt Bequest via the Art Fund 1984

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper left corner, graphite: "147"; left lower edge, graphite: "65" Verso: upper right corner, graphite, underlined: "A.91"; lower right edge, graphite: "P C85 178-27=259".

Collector's mark: none.

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