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Object Type: drawing
Museum number: 1895,0915.547
Description: A young man reading a book, his right arm resting on a sack beside him, after Andrea del Sarto; half-length in profile to right Red chalk
Producer name: After: Andrea del Sarto
School/style: Florentine
Production date: 1501-1531
Materials: paper
Technique: drawn
Dimensions: Height: 165 millimetres; Width: 164 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Copy after a drawing for the 'Madonna del Sacco', Louvre, Paris. Lit.: W. Y. Ottley, 'The Italian School of Design', 1823, opposite p. 41, facsimile engraving by Vivares; J.C. Robinson, 'Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings by the Old Masters, forming the Collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch, Esq.', London, 1876, no. 110 (as Andrea del Sarto)
Bibliographic references: JCR / Descriptive Catalogue of drawings by old masters forming the collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch (110)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: reading/writing
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Col John Wingfield Malcolm
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: William Young Ottley; Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Thomas Lawrence (According to Malcolm catalogue); Previous owner/ex-collection: William II, King of the Netherlands; Previous owner/ex-collection: Gérard Leembruggen (Amsterdam, 5.iii.1866/952 £36-10-1); Previous owner/ex-collection: John Malcolm of Poltalloch
Acquisition date: 1895
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1895,0915.547

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