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Design for an arch with arms of Urban VIII, and with allegorical figures of Vice and Virtue

Maker

(artist)
1600-1699

Title

Design for an arch with arms of Urban VIII, and with allegorical figures of Vice and Virtue

Date of Production

1623 - 1644

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, brown wash, on laid paper, laid down, executed using a ruler and compass, with framing lines in graphite and brown ink mostly trimmed away

Dimensions

Height: 22.2 cm
Width: 16.7 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.70

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

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

Inscriptions

Watermark: none.

Inscription: Mount (removed, cut down and now in file), graphite: "Allegorical figure? Vice (l) + Virtue (r) / Arm of Urban VIII Occasio".

Collector's mark: none.

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