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Soderini family coat-of-arms comprising three stags' attires and crossed keys

Maker

(artist)
1600-1699

Title

Soderini family coat-of-arms comprising three stags' attires and crossed keys

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

graphite, red chalk with stumping, pen and brown ink, on laid paper, squared in graphite and cut into a lunette, laid down on a historic support with 69.2

Dimensions

Height: 7.2 cm
Width: 16.2 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.69.1

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



Provenance

Seiden (London); purchased there by Professor Anthony Blunt, London (1907-1983), January 1978; Blunt Bequest via the Art Fund 1984

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: Support (historic), Recto: upper left, partially obscured by the drawings: branches, part of a tree or coat of arms? Above word starting with "LA[...]" (no match in Heawood or Churchill under 'Coat of arms' or 'Names').

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Mount (missing, recorded in file, but possibly erroneously as another note in Blunt's hand records the month as January), Blunt's hand: "Bt. Siden Jun. 1978" and "Almost certainly by Ferri for the Villa Falconieri / apparently by the same hand as a drawing / of a sybil atd to Catina at Plymouth (Colnaghi, 1979, No. 50) //".

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