drawing
- Museum number
- 1946,0713.344
- Description
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Composition of six figures, including one sitting with his knees drawn up
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk
Verso: A reclining male nude, his legs crossed and his body supported on his left hand
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk
- Production date
- 1513-1561
- Dimensions
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Height: 206 millimetres
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Width: 366 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- 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. 55-6, no. 5; J.A. Gere and P. Pouncey, 'Italian drawings in the BM, Artists working in Rome', London, 1983, no. 138; exhibition catalogue: 'Italian 16th and 17th Century Drawings', Tokyo/Nagoya, 1996, No 24.
Gere & Pouncey 1983
As Franco in the Lawrence-Woodburn Sale Catalogue.
Literature: Popham, Fenwick, p. 55, no. 5.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1964, BM, Michelangelo, no.144(verso)
1996 Feb-Apr, Tokyo, Nat Mus Western Art, Italian Drawings/BM, no.24
1996 Apr-May, Nagoya, Aichi Pref Mus of Art, Italian Drawings/BM, no.24
- Acquisition date
- 1946
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1946,0713.344
