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Museum number: 1946,0713.1414
Description: Count Ugolino and his sons; the imprisoned and starving man seated on the ground at left with his three sons near him, another seated on a bench behind at right Pen and brown ink, over black chalk Verso: Studies of a classical scene of assassination and figures Pen and brown ink, over black chalk
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Production date: 18thC
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Dimensions: Height: 220 millimetres; Width: 237 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: The drawing illustrates the verse from Canto XXXIII of Dante's 'Inferno' from the Divine Comedy'. 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. 167-8, no. 8 (as Pietro Testa)
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Location: Not on display
Subjects: murder/murderer; poverty
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Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Thomas Lawrence (L.2445); Previous owner/ex-collection: Samuel Woodburn (Christie's, 5.vi.1860/part of lot 214 'Various drawings, of the Italian school', 20 in the lot, bt Phillipps £1-0-0); Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Thomas Phillipps; Previous owner/ex-collection: Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick
Acquisition date: 1946
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1946,0713.1414

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