drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 1895,0915.1397
- Description
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The Hellespontine Sibyl, formerly in an album; whole-length standing to front, holding a basket of flowers in her right hand, her left hand resting on a stick
Pen and brown ink, with brown and pink wash, heightened with white (partly oxidised)
- Production date
- 1470-1524
- Dimensions
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Height: 228 millimetres
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Width: 134 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For other drawings in the album, see also 1895,0915.74 to 85.
Lit.: J.C. Robinson, 'Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings by the Old Masters, forming the Collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch, Esq.', London, 1876, Appendix I, no. 23; A.E. Popham and P. Pouncey, 'Italian drawings in the BM, the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries', London, 1950, I, no. 81, II, pl. LXXV (with previous literature)
Popham & Pouncey 1950
Please see 1895,0915.1390 for curatorial comment
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1895
- Acquisition notes
- Anonymous Italian Collector [cfr. supra, P+P 80].
Popham & Pouncey 1950
Please see 1895,0915.1390 for further comments
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1895,0915.1397