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Eagle with the three-rung ladder of the Falconieri arms

Maker

(artist)
1600-1699

Title

Eagle with the three-rung ladder of the Falconieri arms

Date of Production

1600 - 1699

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink on laid paper, cut out around the figure and laid down on a historic support with 69.1

Dimensions

Height: 8.8 cm
Width: 12.8 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.69.2

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

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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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