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Object Type: drawing
Museum number: 1895,0915.527
Description: Two heavily draped men standing in profile to right, one looking down Pen and brown ink and brown wash
Producer name: Circle/School of: Fra Bartolommeo
School/style: Florentine
Production date: 1487-1517
Materials: paper
Technique: drawn
Dimensions: Height: 172 millimetres; Width: 132 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: A copy of two figures on the left-hand side of a sheet of pen studies dating from c. 1504 in the Uffizi (no. 469 E; Fischer, no. 26) Lit.: J.C. Robinson, 'Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings by the Old Masters, forming the Collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch, Esq.', London, 1876, no. 90; H. von der Gabelentz, 'Fra Bartolommeo und die Florentiner Renaissance', Leipzig, 1922, II, p. 125, no. 286 (not accepted as Fra B; with previous literature); C. Fischer, in exhib. cat., Florence, Uffizi, ‘Disegni di Fra Bartolommeo e della sua scuola’, 1986, under no. 26
Bibliographic references: JCR / Descriptive Catalogue of drawings by old masters forming the collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch (90)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Col John Wingfield Malcolm
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Saint-Morys (by descent to his son Comte Carrière); Previous owner/ex-collection: Carrière (L.474); Previous owner/ex-collection: du Boise (according to Malcolm catalogue); Previous owner/ex-collection: R Price (according to Malcolm catalogue); Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir John Charles Robinson (L.1433); Previous owner/ex-collection: John Malcolm of Poltalloch
Acquisition date: 1895
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1895,0915.527

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