drawing; sketch-book

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Object Type: drawing; sketch-book
Museum number: 1855,0811.61
Description: The Jacopo Bellini album: blank circles Leadpoint, the circles covered over by a white ground (? bone dust or chalk), some of the hairs of the brush used to apply this ground are stuck to the surface of the sheet Verso: St John the Baptist in the Wilderness; standing to front, looking down at a monster at l, rocks behind Leadpoint
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Production date: 1440-1470
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Dimensions: Height: 415 millimetres; Width: 336 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Watermark: encircled scales See 1855,0811.1 for a description of the volume. Pages 62 and 64 were transposed when the album was remounted by the BM in the XIXc. Lit.: C. Eisler, 'The Genius of Jacopo Bellini', New York, 1989, pl. 278 (recto), Appendix B as 62r 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(62)); Degenhardt & Schmidt 1968 continuing / Corpus der italienischen Zeichnungen 1300-1450 (721)
Location: Not on display
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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: 1855,0811.61

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