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William Courten

Also known as: William Courten; primary name: Courten, William; other name: Charleton, William
Details: individual; collector; British; Male
Life dates: 1642-1702
Biography: Collector, who often called himself William Charleton. Bequeathed his collection to Hans Sloane in 1702.
Bibliography: For the identification of his prints, see Antony Griffiths in 'Landmarks of Print Collecting' BMP 1996, pp.26-7 and pp.269-273. His code annotations on the verso of prints in light brown ink are usually referred to on the database as being in 'cipher'. For his collection as a whole, see Carol Gibson-Wood in 'Journal of the History of Collections', IX 1997, pp.61-77.

441 related objects

drawing; album; print study

Museum number: 1928,0310.90.1 |
Producer name: BIOG42466 Drawn by:Frans Jansz Post |
Production date: 1645

drawing; offset

Museum number: SL,5214.44 |
Producer name: BIOG49322 Drawn by:Willem van de Velde II |
Production date: 1633-1707

drawing; album

Museum number: SL,5277.1 |
Producer name: BIOG43816 Drawn by:Nicolas Robert |
Production date: 1625-1684

drawing; offset

Museum number: SL,5214.33 |
Producer name: BIOG49322 Drawn by:Willem van de Velde II |
Production date: 1665

drawing

Museum number: SL,5236.29 |
Producer name: BIOG19073 Drawn by:Stefano della Bella |
Production date: 1625-1664

drawing; album

Museum number: SL,5214.27 |
Producer name: BIOG49371 Drawn by:Willem van de Velde I |
Production date: 1658

drawing; album

Museum number: SL,5214.46 |
Producer name: BIOG49371 Drawn by:Willem van de Velde I |
Production date: 1658

drawing; album

Museum number: SL,5214.49 |
Producer name: BIOG49371 Drawn by:Willem van de Velde I |
Production date: 1672

drawing; album

Museum number: SL,5214.39 |
Producer name: BIOG49322 Drawn by:Willem van de Velde II |
Production date: 1665

drawing; album

Museum number: SL,5214.51 |
Producer name: BIOG49371 Drawn by:Willem van de Velde I |
Production date: 1664

drawing; album

Museum number: SL,5214.36-37 |
Producer name: BIOG49371 Drawn by:Willem van de Velde I |
Production date: 1658

drawing; album

Museum number: SL,5214.53 |
Producer name: BIOG49371 Drawn by:Willem van de Velde I |
Production date: 1643

drawing; sketch-book

Museum number: 1928,0310.93.1-12 |
Producer name: BIOG52288 Drawn by:Jan van der Vaart |
Production date: 1668-1727

drawing; album

Museum number: SL,5214.62 |
Producer name: BIOG49322 Drawn by:Willem van de Velde II |
Production date: 1673

drawing; album

Museum number: SL,5214.50 |
Producer name: BIOG49371 Drawn by:Willem van de Velde I |
Production date: 1666

drawing; album

Museum number: SL,5214.47 |
Producer name: BIOG49371 Drawn by:Willem van de Velde I |
Production date: 1672

drawing; album

Museum number: SL,5279.5 |
Producer name: BIOG48724 Drawn by:Guillaume Toulouze |
Production date: 1650

drawing; album

Museum number: SL,5214.26 |
Producer name: BIOG49371 Drawn by:Willem van de Velde I |
Production date: 1672

drawing; offset

Museum number: SL,5214.25 |
Producer name: BIOG49322 Drawn by:Willem van de Velde II |
Production date: 1663

drawing

Museum number: SL,5214.64 |
Producer name: BIOG49322 Drawn by:Willem van de Velde II |
Production date: 1633-1707

drawing; album

Museum number: SL,5214.48 |
Producer name: BIOG49371 Drawn by:Willem van de Velde I |
Production date: 1672

drawing

Museum number: SL,5236.30 |
Producer name: BIOG19073 Drawn by:Stefano della Bella |
Production date: 1625-1664

drawing

Museum number: SL,5236.31 |
Producer name: BIOG19073 Drawn by:Stefano della Bella |
Production date: 1625-1664

drawing; album

Museum number: SL,5214.41 |
Producer name: BIOG49371 Drawn by:Willem van de Velde I |
Production date: 1672-1693

drawing

Museum number: SL,5214.31 |
Producer name: Drawn by:Willem van de Velde IIDrawn by:Willem van de Velde I |
Production date: 1611-1707

drawing; album

Museum number: SL,5214.28 |
Producer name: BIOG49371 Drawn by:Willem van de Velde I |
Production date: 1684

lamp; figure

Museum number: 1756,0101.36 |
Cultures/periods: x14451 Roman Imperial |
Production date: 1stC-2ndC |
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot:St Paul's Cathedral (London)

oil painting

Museum number: Painting.7 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Painted by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1655

oil painting

Museum number: Painting.1 |
Producer name: BIOG29030 Formerly attributed to:Giorgione |
Production date: 1550-1700

print

Museum number: Z,1.162 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1701

print

Title: Monstri Integri, & Dissecti Effigies |
Museum number: Z,1.161 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1580-1620

print

Title: Jacobus Usserius Armacianus |
Museum number: P,3.37 |
Producer name: BIOG34702 Print made by:Pierre Landry |
Production date: 1673

print

Title: Habit d'Arabe |
Museum number: I,7.306 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jacques LepautreAfter:Jean Berain |
Production date: 1681-1682

print

Title: Habit d'Hermione qui à servi dans l'opéra de Cadmus |
Museum number: I,7.308 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jacques LepautreAfter:Jean Berain |
Production date: 1681-1682

print; ornament print

Title: Le Jardin des sauterelles et papillions, ensemble la diversite des mouches recuelli au servisee d'un |
Museum number: Z,1.18-32 |
Producer name: BIOG35596 Print made by:Henri Le Roy |
Production date: 1650

print

Title: Castello St Angelo |
Museum number: X,5.44.+ |
Producer name: BIOG19073 Print made by:Stefano della Bella |
Production date: 1631-1637

print

Museum number: E,4.238.+ |
Producer name: BIOG41533 Print made by:Georg Pencz |
Production date: 1533-1534

print

Title: Small grotesque head |
Museum number: W,6.109 |
Producer name: BIOG43522 After:José de Ribera |
Production date: 17thC

print

Title: The story of Susanna |
Museum number: E,4.308 |
Producer name: BIOG17047 Print made by:Heinrich Aldegrever |
Production date: 1555

print

Museum number: P,1.56 |
Producer name: BIOG49995 Print made by:Lucas Vorsterman I |
Production date: 1610-1650

print

Title: Vestigi delle Terme di Antonino Caracalla in Roma |
Museum number: X,9.15 |
Producer name: Print made by:Gabriel PerellePublished by:Daman |
Production date: 1620-1650

print; ornament print

Title: Ornamenti di fregi et fogliami |
Museum number: X,5.345 |
Producer name: Print made by:Stefano della BellaPublished by:Veuve Langlois |
Production date: 1645-1650 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print; ornament print

Title: Ornamenti di fregi et fogliami |
Museum number: X,5.336 |
Producer name: Print made by:Stefano della BellaPublished by:Veuve Langlois |
Production date: 1645-1650 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Museum number: V,9.26 |
Producer name: Print made by:Girard AudranAfter:Giovanni Francesco Romanelli |
Production date: 1660-1700 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print; book-illustration; frontispiece

Museum number: Ii,5.147 |
Producer name: BIOG147110 Published by:Calcografia Romana |
Production date: 1662 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print

Title: Imago S. Simonis Martyr. Tridentini |
Museum number: O,5.56 |
Producer name: After:Fede GaliziaPublished by:Pietro Stefanoni |
Production date: 1607 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print

Title: Six Penitent Saints |
Museum number: W,8.101 |
Producer name: Print made by:Cornelis CortAfter:Girolamo Muziano |
Production date: 1573 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print

Title: In portu liburnensi colossus e marmore Ferdinandi Views of the port of Livorno |
Museum number: X,5.32 |
Producer name: BIOG19073 Print made by:Stefano della Bella |
Production date: 1652-1657

print; ornament print

Title: Raccolta di varii cappricii |
Museum number: X,5.319 |
Producer name: Print made by:Stefano della BellaPublished by:François Langlois, il Ciartres |
Production date: 1646 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Museum number: O,5.105 |
Producer name: Print made by:Aegidius Sadeler IIAfter:Joseph Heintz the elder |
Production date: 1593 |
Production place: Published in:Rome (city)

print; ornament print

Title: Raccolta di varii cappricii |
Museum number: X,5.327 |
Producer name: Print made by:Stefano della BellaPublished by:François Langlois, il Ciartres |
Production date: 1646 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Essequie celebrate in Fiorenza dal Ser. Gran Duca per la morte dell' imperator Mattias |
Museum number: X,4.153 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 After:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1619-1670

print

Title: Les fantaisies Les fantasies |
Museum number: X,4.333 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jacques CallotPublished by:Israël Henriet |
Production date: 1633-1634

print

Museum number: X,4.504 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Print made by:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1618-1624

print

Museum number: X,5.2 |
Producer name: Print made by:Stefano della BellaPublished by:Pierre Mariette I |
Production date: 1640-1650

print

Museum number: X,4.276 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Print made by:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1625-1626

print

Title: The prophet Ahijah |
Museum number: D,7.100 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Abraham Bloemaert |
Production date: 1604

print

Title: Nouveau Testament |
Museum number: X,4.30 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jacques CallotPublished by:Israël Henriet |
Production date: 1635

print

Museum number: O,4.31 |
Producer name: BIOG51031 Print made by:Johannes Wierix |
Production date: 1600

print

Museum number: X,4.274 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jacques CallotPublished by:Israël Henriet |
Production date: 1628

print

Title: The liberal arts |
Museum number: E,4.286 |
Producer name: BIOG41533 Print made by:Georg Pencz |
Production date: 1541

print

Title: La Noblesse |
Museum number: X,4.195 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Print made by:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620-1623

print

Museum number: D,7.87 |
Producer name: Print made by:Willem van SwanenburgAfter:Abraham Bloemaert |
Production date: 1611

print

Museum number: D,5.138 |
Producer name: Print made by:Magdalena de PassePublished by:Crispijn de Passe the Elder |
Production date: 1620-1630

print

Museum number: X,6.60 |
Producer name: Print made by:Michel DorignyAfter:Simon Vouet |
Production date: 1644

print

Title: The liberal arts |
Museum number: E,4.280 |
Producer name: BIOG41533 Print made by:Georg Pencz |
Production date: 1541

print

Title: Salvatoris Beatae Mariae Virginis Sanctorum Aposto Les Grands Apôtres |
Museum number: X,4.104 |
Producer name: After:Jacques CallotPublished by:Israël Henriet |
Production date: 1631

print

Title: Salvatoris Beatae Mariae Virginis Sanctorum Aposto Les Grands Apôtres |
Museum number: X,4.98 |
Producer name: After:Jacques CallotPublished by:Israël Henriet |
Production date: 1631

print

Museum number: O,2.164 |
Producer name: BIOG49517 After:Diego Velázquez |
Production date: 1700-1750

print

Title: The triumphs of Petrarch |
Museum number: E,4.272 |
Producer name: BIOG41533 Print made by:Georg Pencz |
Production date: 1539

print

Title: Salvatoris Beatae Mariae Virginis Sanctorum Aposto Les Grands Apôtres |
Museum number: X,4.93 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jacques CallotPublished by:Israël Henriet |
Production date: 1631

print

Title: La Noblesse |
Museum number: X,4.196 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Print made by:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1620-1623

print

Title: Combat de Veillane |
Museum number: X,4.151 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Print made by:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1630

print

Title: Ioannes Bollius |
Museum number: O,6.33 |
Producer name: BIOG29295 Print made by:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1593

print

Museum number: D,5.166 |
Producer name: Print made by:Hendrik GoltziusPublished by:Jacob Matham |
Production date: 1598-1600

print

Title: Delineationes picturae altarium in Ecclesiis S. Pe Tableaux de Rome |
Museum number: X,4.61 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jacques CallotAfter:Orazio Gentileschi |
Production date: 1607-1611

print

Museum number: F,3.122 |
Producer name: Print made by:Cornelis BloemaertAfter:Gerard van Honthorst |
Production date: 1625

print

Title: S. Paulus Sinners of the Old and New Testament |
Museum number: D,7.95 |
Producer name: Print made by:Willem van SwanenburgAfter:Abraham Bloemaert |
Production date: 1609-1611

print

Title: Four seasons |
Museum number: D,5.241 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jan SaenredamAfter:Hendrik Goltzius |
Production date: 1595

print

Title: Les fantaisies Les fantasies |
Museum number: X,4.337 |
Producer name: Print made by:Jacques CallotPublished by:Israël Henriet |
Production date: 1633-1634

print

Museum number: D,8.87 |
Producer name: BIOG35814 Print made by:Jan Lievens |
Production date: 1630-1674

print

Museum number: V,10.151 |
Producer name: Print made by:Pietro TestaPublished by:Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi |
Production date: 1644

print

Museum number: O,5.36 |
Producer name: BIOG33770 Print made by:Lucas Kilian |
Production date: 1629

print

Title: Clement ye X: native of Rome, Created Pope ye 29th of April 1670 ... |
Museum number: O,3.88 |
Producer name: Print made by:William FaithornePublished by:William Faithorne |
Production date: 1670-1676

print

Title: Les fantaisies Les fantasies |
Museum number: X,4.331 |
Producer name: BIOG21725 Print made by:Jacques Callot |
Production date: 1633-1634

print

Museum number: E,4.35 |
Producer name: BIOG24299 After:Albrecht Dürer |
Production date: 1504

print

Museum number: W,6.33 |
Producer name: Print made by:Giovanni Benedetto CastiglionePublished by:Giovanni Domenico de' Rossi |
Production date: 1645

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