- Museum number
- 1946,0713.1281
- Description
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A wounded nude warrior carried by two others; soldiers behind, a body at left foreground and a helmet at r
Pen and brown ink, on brown prepared paper
- Production date
- 1545-1574
- Dimensions
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Height: 209 millimetres
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Width: 169 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Watermark: a bird in a shaped escutcheon surmounted by a six-pointed star.
For similar inscriptions by Zomer, see M.C. Plomp, 'Jan Pietersz. Zomer's inscriptions on drawings', Delineavit et Sculpsit, 17, 1997, pp. 13-27. Catherine Monbeig-Goguel attributes a drawing in the Louvre to the same hand (4031).
Lit.: A.E. Popham, 'Catalogue of Drawings in the Collection formed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., F.R.S., now in the possession of his Grandson, T. Fitzroy Phillipps Fenwick of Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham', London, 1935, pp. 54-5, no. 1; J.A. Gere and P. Pouncey, 'Italian drawings in the BM, Artists working in Rome', London, 1983, no. 93; C. Monbeig-Goguel, 'Il disegno italiano nel Cinquecento' in G. Briganti (ed.), 'La Pittura in Italia - il Cinquecento', Milan, 1988, II, pp. 606, 614, n. 20
Gere & Pouncey 1983
The final word of the inscription seems clearly to read "Cielza", but we have been unable to find any record of a church with that, or a similar-sounding, dedication, either in Rome or in the neighbourhood of Viterbo.
The style of the drawing itself is in a general way Michelangelesque, but could be more particularly defined in terms of Battista Franco, Pierino da Vinci and Jacopo Zucchi. The last-named worked with Donato as a fellow-assistant to Vasari in the Peter Martyr Chapel in the Vatican (see P. Barocchi, 'Vasari Pittore', Milan, 1964, p. 69).
Literature: Popham, Fenwick, p. 54.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1946
- Acquisition notes
- Gere & Pouncey 1983
There is no sign of Sir T. Lawrence's collector's mark, but according to Popham the old mount bore the pencil numbering which occurs on many drawings from the Phillipps-Fenwick Collection, identifying it as lot 863 in the Lawrence-Woodburn Sale, Christie, 1860, 8 June, bt with 13 others Sir T. Phillipps, 18s.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1946,0713.1281