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Elevation and plan of a campanile of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome

Maker

(artist)
born 1657

Title

Elevation and plan of a campanile of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome

Date of Production

(circa) 1657

Medium

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

Dimensions

Height: 41.5 cm
Width: 23.1 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.59

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


campaniles



Provenance

from an album compiled and partly drawn by Pier Leone Ghezzi, Rome (1674-1755), probably mid-18th century (several sheets in the Blunt collection belonged to this album); probably Christie’s (London), 1939-41; Dr Alfred Scharf, London (1900-1965); purchased from him by Professor Anthony Blunt, London (1907-1983), 1941; Blunt Bequest via the Art Fund 1984

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: circle - unable to see what it contains due to backing sheet.

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, brown ink: "8"; lower centre, covered with a strip of added paper, brown ink, signed by the artist?: "Ego Josephf Vasconius fecit"; lower left and right, brown ink: "Scala di" and 'Romani", and in between, a scale labelled "V" "X" and "XX". Verso (backing sheet): upper left corner, graphite: "59"; upper right corner, graphite: "photo Id - no neg no / Vasconio / (Hofer) / 280 x 420 //"; lower left corner, graphite: "21"; lower right corner, graphite: "Blunt 59".

Collector's mark: none.

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