drawing
- Museum number
- 1946,0713.1423
- Description
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A frieze with men rowing in Roman boats decorated with figures, after Polidoro
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, heightened with white, partly oxidised, on blue paper
- Production date
- 1515-1543
- Dimensions
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Height: 209 millimetres
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Width: 411 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- After a frieze on Palazzo Gaddi, Rome.
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. 36, no. 9; P. Pouncey and J.A. Gere, 'Italian Drawings in the BM, Raphael and His Circle', London, 1962, I, Appendix III, p. 177; L. Ravelli 'Polidoro Caldara da Caravaggio', Bergamo 1978, p. 362, no 653
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1946
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1946,0713.1423
