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Design for a ciborium and screen

Maker

(artist)
1700-1799

Title

Date of Production

1700 - 1750

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash on laid paper, executed using a ruler and compass, now laid down on Japanese tissue

Dimensions

Height: 39.1 cm
Width: 45 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.63.1

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

choir screens

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, lot 2; 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: Watermarks: Recto: right centre: difficult to see, “IV” or “W”? [see photo]. Support (historic): upper centre: circle containing a fleur-de-lis above letter “B” [see type of letter in Heawood 1598-1600, Rome 1762, though those circles have double borders].

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Support (page from an album on which the drawing was formerly laid down, now separated but still mounted with the drawing), Recto: lower left corner, graphite: "£4.0.0 / Lot 2"; lower right edge, graphite, underlined: "LeMuer"; lower right corner, brown ink: "76". Support (historic), Verso (now under Japanese tissue and slightly obscured), all graphite, in Blunt’s hand: upper left edge, cut off: “77[?]”; upper right edge: “photo’d – no neg no” and “33”; lower left: “cf S Maria della Scala”; lower right corner: “5”.

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