drawing
- Museum number
- 1860,0616.67
- Description
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A military camp; figures and two horses around two tents at centre, cavalry charging behind at left with bound prisoners in the foreground, town walls and a harbour in the distance
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1425-1450
- Dimensions
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Height: 170 millimetres
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Width: 234 millimetres (sheet made up)
- Curator's comments
- The drawing is listed by Degenhart and Schmitt among a group of ex-Fries or Lagoy drawings which they believe might have once been in a album formed in Gentile da Fabriano/ Pisanello's studio.
Lit.: T. Borenius, "Vasari Society", second series, X (1929), I; A.E. Popham and P. Pouncey, 'Italian drawings in the BM, the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries', London, 1950, I, no. 304, II, pl. CCLXV.; G.L. Mellini, 'Altichiero e Jacopo Avanzi', Milan, 1965, p. 78f.; B. Degenhart and A. Schmitt, 'Corpus der italienischen Zeichnungen, 1300-1450, Süd-und Mittelitalien', Berlin, 1968, I-2, p. 643
Popham & Pouncey 1950
Catalogued in the Woodburn Sale as by S. Memmi. Borenius, who calls this drawing North Italian and dates it c. 1420, seems to be right in seeing "a decided affinity" to the art of Pisanello. It is indeed probably safe to assume that such a drawing would have been done by a Veronese. The date suggested by Borenius is perhaps a trifle too early.
Literature: T. B(orenius), Vasari Society, Second Series, x (1929), 1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1972, BM, 'The Art of Drawing', No. 86
- Acquisition date
- 1860
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1860,0616.67
