drawing
- Museum number
- 1946,0713.255
- Description
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Three bound prisoners, including one standing, another bound to a tree
Pen and brown ink
Verso: Study of the 'Agony in the Garden', with Christ at l
Black chalk
- Production date
- 1508-1560
- Dimensions
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Height: 273 millimetres
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Width: 178 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Tentatively relate by Ward to the thieves in the lost relief of the 'Deposition' which Bandinelli presented to the Emperor Charles V in Genoa in 1528/9. Comparable drawings with thieves lashed to tree trunks are in the Musée du Louvre, Paris, Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo, the Uffizi, and a private collection (see exhib. cat., Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, 'Baccio Bandinelli Drawings from British Collections', 1988, under no. 27). Drawing on verso is by a later, 17th c. Florentine hand (Biliverti?).
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, p. 27, no. 8; R.B. Ward, 'A Catalogue of the Drawings of Baccio Bandinelli in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum', M.A. Report, Courtauld Institute, 1978, no. 19, pl. XXI
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1946
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1946,0713.255
