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drawing
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sketch-book
Object Type
drawing
sketch-book
Museum number
1855,0811.24
Description
The Jacopo Bellini album: St George and the Dragon, the saint mounted on a horse battling with the monster rearing up on his back legs, the composition continued to the left-hand page of the opening, 1855,0811.23 verso Leadpoint Verso: Groups of devils in Christ with the opening of a cave in the left background, the composition continued from Christ in Limbo on right-hand page of the opening, 1855,0811.25 recto Leadpoint
Producer name
Drawn by:
Jacopo Bellini
School/style
Venetian
Production date
1440-1470
Materials
paper
Technique
drawn
Dimensions
Height:
415 millimetres
Width:
334 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Watermark: encircled scales See 1855,0811.1 for a description of the volume. Lit.: C. Eisler, 'The Genius of Jacopo Bellini', New York, 1989, pls 269 (recto) and 223 (verso), Appendix B as 25r and v
Bibliographic references
Popham & Pouncey 1950 / The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
(21)
Eisler 1989 / The Genius of Jacopo Bellini : The Complete Paintings and Drawings
(App.B.1(25))
Degenhardt & Schmidt 1968 continuing / Corpus der italienischen Zeichnungen 1300-1450
(721)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
christian saint/martyr
myth/legend
christ in hell
Associated names
Representation of:
St George
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
G B Mantovani
Purchased through:
Rawdon Lubbock Brown
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Anna Bellini
(?; will, 25 Nov. 1471)
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Gentile Bellini
(?; will, 18 Feb. 1507)
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Giovanni Bellini
(?)
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Gabriele Vendramin
(probably)
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Jacopo Soranzo
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Marco Cornaro, Bishop of Vicenza
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Avvocato Vecchia
(?)
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Count Bonomo Algarotti
(?)
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Bonetto Corniani
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Giovanni Maria Sasso
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Girolamo Mantovani
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Domenico Mantovani
Acquisition date
1855
Acquisition notes
See 1855,0811,a.1.
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1855,0811.24