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Design for an illusionistic ceiling (recto)

Maker

(artist)
1700-1799

Title

Design for an illusionistic ceiling (recto)

Date of Production

1742 - 1799

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, grey and brown wash, executed using a ruler and compass (recto), graphite (verso), on laid paper

Dimensions

Height: 32.8 cm
Width: 19.6 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.88

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

Professor Anthony Blunt, London (1907-1983), by 1964; Blunt Bequest via the Art Fund 1984

Exhibition History

The Sir Anthony Blunt Collection, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1964 (February)

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: centre: four lines of text, difficult to read but first line is "FINDE" and last looks like "1742" (similar though with different middle lines of text to Heawood 3265 - Marseilles 1773- and 3269 - Tunis 1766).

Collector's mark: Recto: lower centre, black ink, not fully stamped: unidentified collector (not on Lugt?).

Inscription: Verso: upper centre, graphite, vigorously crossed out; "81"; lower left, graphite: "10/fw"; lower left, graphite: "T4/-"; lower centre, graphite: "1/2". Mount (removed, cut down and now in file): graphite, Blunt's hand: "Blunt 88 AAC 3 / N. Italian / ? Piedmontese //"; graphite: "335/11/8 / Cat no. 45 / Blunt 88 / N It / 18C //".

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