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Design for a cartouche incorporating the Medici Grand Ducal Coronet and an allegory of Truth (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1575-1599

Title

Design for a cartouche incorporating the Medici Grand Ducal Coronet and an allegory of Truth (recto)

Date of Production

1570 - 1599

Medium

red and black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash (recto), pen and brown ink (verso), on laid paper, hinged at the left to a historic support

Dimensions

Height: 24.6 cm
Width: 11.3 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.27

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

Professor Anthony Blunt (1907-1983); Blunt Bequest via the Art Fund 1984

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower right corner, graphite: "3". Support (historic), Recto: upper right corner, graphite, circled: "23"; upper right, graphite: "35,000".

Collector's mark: none.

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