drawing
- Museum number
- 1946,0713.472
- Description
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A group of women in classical dress, after Polidoro; including one seen from behind, her arm around another
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk
- Production date
- 1515-1543
- Dimensions
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Height: 266 millimetres
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Width: 219 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Part of composition engraved by Michele Lucchese. Ravelli catalogued it as a free copy after Polidoro's Palazzo Ricci, Rome fresco and suggested it was by a Tuscan hand.
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. 39, no. 21; 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. 558 (as copy after Palazzo Ricci in Rome).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1946
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1946,0713.472
