- Museum number
- 1912,1220.1
- Description
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Titus Manlius Torquatus killing the Gaul, from a series of designs for glass-paintings; on either side are groups of soldiers, wearing armour and carrying spears and standards, a figure at left holds a chain aloft, a castle and mountains in the distance, circular
Pen and black ink
- Production date
- 1490-1537 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 240 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Summary of J. Rowlands, 'Drawings by German Artists and Artists from German-speaking regions of Europe in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum: the Fifteenth Century, and the Sixteenth Century by Artists born before 1530', London, BM Press, 1993, no.89:
'This drawing is from a series of designs for glass-paintings associated with the heroes and heroines of antiquity (see 1949,0411.109), dating from the early 1520s. All the designs are about 24 cm or slightly over in size. A companion to this drawing is the ‘Death of Marcus Curtius’ in Berlin (Kupferstichkabinett, KdZ. 17665). A similar design at Coburg of the ‘Martyrdom of St Victor’ belongs to a series representing saints (Veste Coburg, Kunstsammlung; Anders-son, ‘Detroit’, pp. 82-83, no. 15, repr.). Further scenes were taken from the ‘Gesta Romanorum’, such as ‘A duke's huntsmen finding an infant boy in the woods’ (see 1997,0712.20) ‘The banquet of the German Emperor’, formerly in the E. Rodrigues Collection in Paris (sale, Amsterdam, Frederik Muller, 1921, 12-13 April, lot 9, bt ‘Cassirer 1125 Guilders’, repr. in cat.); ‘The Emperor and the peasant's son’ in the Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt (see S. Buck, 'Wendepunkt deutscher Zeichenkunst: Spätgotik und Renaissance im Städel', exh.cat. Frankfurt am Main, 2003-4, no. 50); and the ‘Nuptial bedchamber’ in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (see B. Butts and L. Hendrix, 'Painting on Light', exh. cat. J.Paul Getty Museum and St Louis Art Museum, 2000-2001, no. 95).'
Lit: T. Falk, 'Burlington Magazine', May, 1995, p.325
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1912
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1912,1220.1