drawing
- Museum number
- 1946,0713.477
- Description
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Hippocrates, God of Silence, after Zuccaro; seated with his finger to his lips, with other figures around him
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, on buff paper
- Production date
- 1578-1609
- Dimensions
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Height: 207 millimetres
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Width: 210 millimetres (circular)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Watermark: encircled fleur-de-lys.
Copy of a circular composition in pendentive in Stanza di Aurora in the Palazzo Farnese, Caprarola (illustrated in C. Acidini Luchinat, 'Taddeo e Federico Zuccari, fratelli pittori del cinquecento', Milan, 1998, I, p. 207, fig. 91).
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. 83, no. 1 (as Niccolò Pomerancio); J.A. Gere and P. Pouncey, 'Italian drawings in the BM, Artists working in Rome', London, 1983, no. 398
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1946
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1946,0713.477