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drawing
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album
Object Type
drawing
album
Museum number
1920,0214.1.22
Description
Marco Zoppo (or Lord Rosebery) album: a huntsman with dogs standing by his horse near a pool with three naked women Pen and brown ink, on vellum Verso: A warrior, bust-length, turned to the right in a helmet with a putto seated in a saddle at the top blowing water out of a cornucopia Pen and brown ink
Producer name
Drawn by:
Marco Zoppo
School/style
North Italian
Production date
1465-1474
(?)
Materials
vellum
Technique
drawn
Dimensions
Height:
343 millimetres
Width:
264 millimetres
(covers)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
For the album see commentary for 1920,0214.1.1
Bibliographic references
Popham & Pouncey 1950 / The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
(260)
Location
Not on display
Exhibition history
1971, British Museum, London, 'The Graphic work of Dürer', no.373 1998, British Museum, London, 'Padua in the 1450s', no.15
Subjects
myth/legend
italian costume 15thc
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
Previous owner
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Matteo Macigny
(d. Padua, 1582)
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Giambattista dei Rossi
(1765; [referred to in Popham & Pouncey 1950 as "Giambattista de Rubeis"])
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Pietro Novelli
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Samuel Woodburn
(Christie's, 27.vi.1854/2321 as Mantegna 'A collection of twenty-six beautiful drawings, in pen, on vellum, many of them fine compositions, with a head on the reverse of each---bound in a small folio album' bt Barker £220-10-0)
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Alexander Barker
Previous owner/ex-collection:
Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Acquisition date
1920
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1920,0214.1.22