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The Courtauld Gallery, London Pier Leone Ghezzi (1674 - 1755), Monument to a donkey at the Villa del Pigneto Sacchetti at Castelfusano, near Ostia (recto)
Exhibition
Reading Drawings
21 Jan 2017 – 29 May 2017
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Monday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
Adults: £7.00
Concessions: £6.00
Children 18 years and under: Free
National Art Pass: Free
Students (UK and International): Free
Address
- Somerset House, Strand
- London
- WC2R 0RN
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Charing Cross/Temple/Holborn
- Waterloo/Charing Cross
A selection of drawings from The Courtauld Gallery’s collection demonstrates the reasons and circumstances behind annotations on drawings, from straightforward signatures to lengthy captions, invented languages and records of ownership.
About
Inscriptions on drawings reveal essential information regarding their authorship, dating, subject, purpose and provenance. A selection of drawings from The Courtauld Gallery’s collection demonstrates the reasons and circumstances behind annotations on drawings, from straightforward signatures to lengthy captions, invented languages and records of ownership.
Artists and collectors often had no reservations about writing on their works, as evidenced by this display, ranging from the sixteenth through early twentieth centuries.
