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Design for an iron balcony

Maker

(artist)
1700-1799

Title

Design for an iron balcony

Date of Production

1700 - 1799

Medium

graphite, pen and brown ink, yellow and grey wash, with prickmarks, on laid paper, the upper edge ragged and the right edge deckle

Dimensions

Height: 19.2 cm
Width: 31.5 cm

Accession Number

D.1984.AB.97

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

iron (metal)


Provenance

Alister Mathews, Bournemouth (1907-1985); purchased from him by Professor Anthony Blunt (1907-1983), n.d.; Blunt Bequest via the Art Fund 1984

Inscriptions

Watermark: Watermark: none.

Inscription: Recto: lower left edge, graphite, artist's hand, measurement: "B383"; centre right, graphite, artist's hand: "Alteza della patina B285 + [tilde over “+”] e mezo quarto / Alteza del piantone tuto Longo B289 + [tilde over “+”] / Alteza del Diantone [the 'D' altered from a 'B'] con maya di Longeza B288 //"; upper right edge, graphite, cut off: "I[...]". Verso: lower right edge, graphite: "P 51-18*". Mount (historic), Recto: centre (under drawing), graphite: "design / for / gate //"; lower left, graphite: "51-18*"; lower centre, graphite: "Italian / 18th / century //"; lower right, graphite: "C75 / item 133 / £12 / P //". Mount (historic), Verso: upper left corner, graphite: "97"; lower left corner, graphite: "917".

Collector's mark: none.

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