drawing; album

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Object Type: drawing; album
Museum number: 1920,0214.1.25
Description: Marco Zoppo (or Lord Rosebery) album: a naked woman (Victory or Venus Victrix) holding a helmet and a pike, infants with weapons behind her Pen and brown ink, on vellum Verso: A warrior with a moustache, bust-length, turned to the left in a helmet with a griffin on the crest 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)
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Curator's comments: For the album see commentary for 1920,0214.1.1. Wittkower associates Zoppo's representation of Venus Victrix with Renaissance allegorical representations of Minerva. Lit.: R. Wiitkower, 'Transformation of Minerva in Renaissance Imagery', "Journal of the Warburg Institute", II, January 1939, p. 202
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: 1920,0214.1.25

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