- Museum number
- 1889,0527.40
- Description
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'The Florentine Picture-Chronicle' page from the album (verso of 1889,0527.39): a circular classical temple with putti bearing garlands at the top, the landscape continued to right-hand page of opening (1889,0527.41)
Pen and brown ink and brown wash over black chalk (some ruled)
- Production date
- 1470-1475 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 326 millimetres
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Width: 226 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Colvin suggested that this might be the Temple of Themis where, according to Ovid, Pyrrha and Deucalion went to consult the oracle. The linking of the two scenes through the landscape is clumsily done with the right-hand drawing having a margin and the present one not having one.
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
- 1889,0527.40
