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Design for an altar

Maker

(artist)
1700-1799

Title

Design for an altar

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

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

Dimensions

Height: 41.4 cm
Width: 27.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.75

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

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: none.

Collector's mark: none.

Inscription: Recto: upper right corner, graphite, faded and mostly illegible: "St Si[...]"; upper right corner, brown ink: "31"; upper centre, graphite: "9" or "g"; left centre, brown ink, artist's hand: "22 1/2"; lower centre, brown ink, artist's hand: "9 1/2" above a scale numbered "2" to "12". Verso (backing sheet): upper right, graphite, underlined and supralined: "4"; right centre, graphite: "grey"; on strip added to right edge, at lower right corner, graphite: "89 on v.o / cf mount / No neg. no / Blunt 75 / Roman / C18 / 48 //".

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