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Design for the façade of a palace

Maker

Style of
Galeazzo Alessi (artist)
1512-1572

Title

Design for the façade of a palace

Date of Production

(circa) 1580

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, grey wash, on laid paper, laid down on an album page

Dimensions

Height: 24.3 cm
Width: 18.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.23

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

Walraf (?); purchased there by Anthony Blunt, London (1907-1983), 1941 (£3); Blunt Bequest via the Art Fund 1984

Exhibition History

The Sir Anthony Blunt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1964 (February)

Architectural and decorative drawings, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 30/01/1941-28/02/1941

Literature

Architectural and decorative drawings, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1941
cat. no. 17

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Support (album page), Recto: upper right, brown ink: "73"; upper right corner, graphite: "6"; upper right edge, graphite: "the Palazzo Marmorio 1550 Marlano"; lower centre, graphite: "£3"; lower right, graphite, underlined and crossed out: "£4".

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