drawing
- Museum number
- 1946,0713.1422
- Description
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An angel with arms raised, scattering flowers, after Raphael
Pen and brown ink, on light brown prepared paper
- Production date
- 1498-1520
- Dimensions
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Height: 196 millimetres
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Width: 137 millimetres (max; irregularly cut)
- Curator's comments
- The same figures appear on page 56 recto of the so-called 'Raphael' or 'Venetian' sketchbook in the Accademia, Venice (all the drawings are illustrated in Ferino Pagden's catalogue). This is a collection of copies made probably by a young artist in the circle of Perugino in the early XVI century. Ferino Pagden suggests that the BM copyist might also be responsible for two drawings in the Ashmolean also copied from the sketchbook: K.T. Parker, 'Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum', II, Oxford 1956, nos. 37-8). 1895,0915.640 is a copy from the same model.
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', I, London, 1935, p. 14, no. 1 (as Umbrian School XVI century); P. Pouncey and J.A. Gere, 'Italian Drawings in the BM, Raphael and His Circle', London, 1962, I, Appendix III, p. 176; S. Ferino Pagden, in exhib. cat., Florence, Uffizi, 'Disegni Umbri del Rinascimento da Perugino a Raffaello', 1982, under no. 83/56, p. 216
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1946
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1946,0713.1422
