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Obelisks with Egyptian symbols

Maker

(artist)

(engraver)
1761-1802

(publisher)

Title

Obelisks with Egyptian symbols

Date of Production

18.1.1789

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 22 cm
Width: 16.7 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.3993.12

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords











human




equine



Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Recto: Within the image, above steles, printed in black ink: “I / IV / III / II / ZOAΩ”. Below the image, lower left margin, printed in black ink: “C. Cordiner pinxt.”; lower right margin, printed in black ink: “P. Mazell sculp.”; lower centre margin, printed in black ink: “OBELISK'S with EGYPTIAN SYMBOLS. / Publish'd as the Act directs Jan.y 18, 1789, by Peter Mazell Engraver, No. 31 Gerard Street Soho.”. Above the image, upper left margin, later Witt inscription, handwritten in graphite: “925/31(24)”

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