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Museum number: 1883,0714.81
Description: Fortitude, with Samson tearing apart the lion above, from a series of four Cardinal Virtues; a woman wearing armour holding a broken column, seated before a ledge with curtain suspended Pen and black ink, with grey and brown wash
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Production date: 1545-1580
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Dimensions: Height: 212 millimetres; Width: 193 millimetres
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Location: Not on display
Subjects: virtues and vices; classical mythology
Associated names
Acquisition name: Purchased from: John Winston Churchill, 7th Duke of Marlborough (Sunderland Collection); Purchased through: Christie's (15.vi.1883/43); Purchased through: Alphonse Wyatt Thibaudeau
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Buonfiglio of Bologna; Previous owner/ex-collection: Zaccaria Sagredo; Previous owner/ex-collection: John Udny
Acquisition date: 1883
Acquisition notes: 1883,0714.77 to 83 came from two lots at the Sunderland sale. The BM copy of the catalogue is annotated by Popham, and states that all the drawings came from four volumes with the Sagredo arms on the cover which were broken up for the sale. They had been purchased by Zaccaria Sagredo from the Buonfiglio family in Bologna before 1728 (see Bottari II p.186). In 1763 John Udny purchased them from the heirs of Zaccaria Sagredo and brought the albums to England where they enetered the Sunderland collection.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1883,0714.81

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