drawing
- Museum number
- 1918,0615.5
- Description
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Ornamental Renaissance motifs with putti; pendant ornament above with ewer, below four putti, three playing musical instruments
Pen and brown and black ink, with grey, pink, yellow, and light green wash
- Production date
- 1525-1550 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 175 millimetres
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Width: 263 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- German, c. 1525-50.
Rowlands 1993
LITERATURE: K.T. Parker, Anz., NF, xxiii, 1921, p. 219, addendum, XIB.
There is nothing about the drawing to lend any credence to the idea that it might be by Urs Graf (q. v.), nor can an attribution to Hans Springinklee (q.v.) be sustained. This draughtsman's use of wash to indicate shadow and thereby suggest that the motifs on the sheet are drawn as though they are placed against a wall, is a trait, as Parker noted, uncommon among the artists of Nuremberg. While it is unlikely that the draughtsman, whose skill to judge from this sheet was rather mediocre, could have been from that city, there are, in my view, no distinctive characteristics that point to a particular location.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1918
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1918,0615.5