drawing
- Museum number
- 1946,0713.466
- Description
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A scene from Roman History, after Polidoro: Five warriors with swords and trophies, including one wearing a classical tunic
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: 376 millimetres
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Width: 254 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Copy after a scene between the second floor windows, Palazzo Milesi, 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. 37, no. 12; 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, no 844
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1946
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1946,0713.466
