drawing
- Museum number
- 1917,1208.1
- Description
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The Rest on the Flight into Egypt with angels; the Virgin and Child seated at centre with St Joseph behind at l, an angel offering fruit kneeling at r, landscape beyond
Pen and brown ink, with grey wash, over black chalk
- Production date
- 1715-1760
- Dimensions
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Height: 205 millimetres
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Width: 272 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Lit.: A. Bettagno, in exhib. cat., Venice, Fondazione Cini, 'Disegni di una collezione veneziana del Settecento', 1966, no. 116; A. Pietropolli, Gerolamo Brusaferro, dipinti e disegni', Venice, 2002, no. 153, p. 94, fig. 190 (with previous literature)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1966, Venice, Fondazione Cini, 'Disegni di una collezione veneziana del Settecento', no. 116
- Acquisition date
- 1917
- Acquisition notes
- 1917,1208.1 to 4651 constitutes the Lucas Collection, from Wrest Park, Bedfordshire. See Dodgson's report to the Trustees of 4 December 1917, and the note in the register. The collection was formed by successive members of the Grey family. It gos back to Henry Grey, Duke of Kent (d.1741), but mainly to later members of the family, Amabel, Countess de Grey and Thomas Philip Robinson, 1st Earl of Grey and Baron Lucas (1781-1859). Little was later than 1850. The selection was made by Dodgson at the request of Lady Lucas who inherited Wrest Park on the death of her brother in action on 3 November 1916, and was presented by her in his memory.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1917,1208.1
