drawing
- Museum number
- 1885,0509.36
- Description
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A Doge at centre with his counsellors seated either side
Pen and brown ink, on paper rubbed with red chalk
- Production date
- 1400-1450
- Dimensions
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Height: 118 millimetres
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Width: 172 millimetres (sheet made up)
- Curator's comments
- Veronese early XVc.
An inscription by Jonathan Richardson Snr on back of old mount, relating to the description of the subject.
Lit: A.E. Popham and P. Pouncey, 'Italian drawings in the BM, the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries', London, 1950, I, no. 297, II, pl. CCLXVI; G.L. Mellini, 'Altichiero e Jacopo Avanzi', Milan, 1965, p. 78; C. Gibson-Wood, ''A Judiciously Disposed Collection' Jonathan Richardson Senior's cabinet of drawings', in C. Baker, C. Elam and G. Warwick (eds), 'Collecting Prints & Drawings in Europe c. 1500-1750', Aldershot, 2003, p. 59, figs. 10.2-3
Popham & Pouncey 1950
Please see 1885,0509.37 for curatorial comment and literature
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1885
- Acquisition notes
- Thibaudeau acted as an agent for the British Museum at the Russell sale in December 1884, see 1885,0509.1574-1607. Some of the other drawings Thibaudeau purchased at the same sale were subsequently sold to the British Museum in 1885; see 1885,0509.33-51 and 1885,0711.271-303.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1885,0509.36