- Museum number
- 1889,0527.26
- Description
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'The Florentine Picture-Chronicle' page from the album (verso of 1889,0527.25): Saturn holding a sheaf of corn in his right hand outside the walls of the city of Sutri, the landscape continued on the right-hand page of the opening (1889,0527.27)
Pen and brown ink and brown wash over black chalk
- Production date
- 1470-1475 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 326 millimetres
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Width: 226 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Sutri, the ancient Sutrium, in the province of Viterbo outside of Rome was by legend founded by the god Saturn. He is said to have taught the people agriculture hence the implements at his feet in the drawing. The use of two shades of ink in this and the opposite sheet might suggest the collaboration of two artists in the Baldini/ Finiguerra shop.
Lit.: S. Colvin, 'A Florentine Picture Chronicle', London, 1898; A.E. Popham and P. Pouncey, 'Italian drawings in the BM, the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries', London, 1950, I, no. 274, II, pls. CCXXXVII-CCXLI.
For Popham & Pouncey 1950 entry see 1889,0527.1
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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BM, 'Padua in the 1450s', 1998, no. 16
- Acquisition date
- 1889
- Acquisition notes
- Popham & Pouncey 1950
The leaves of the book, in its present state, seem to be numbered 5 to 59 in a seventeenth(?)-century hand; the numbers, in the r.-hand top corner, have in many cases been partly trimmed away. The book was broken up by Ruskin, who was in the habit of lending parts of his books and manuscripts to friends and institutions in which he was interested, with the result that when the Museum purchased it from him in 1889 it contained only 49 folios. Of the remainder, two (1890,0314.1-4. Folios 13 and 14) were presented the next year by the trustees of the Ruskin Museum, Sheffield, and four (1900,0526.1-8. Folios 9, 22, 36, and 47) in 1900 by Ruskin's cousin, Mrs. Arthur Severn; folios 1 to 4 are missing, but there is nothing to indicate that they were not removed before Ruskin acquired the book.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1889,0527.26
