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Museum number: 1946,0713.512
Description: The Return of the Prodigal Son; the entrance to a building with the boy kneeling before his father, a man on horseback behind, figures seated at a table beyond at r, trumpeters at left foreground and a man killing a calf (?) at r Pen and brown ink, with grey-brown wash, over black chalk
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Production date: 16thC
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Dimensions: Height: 234 millimetres; Width: 333 millimetres
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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', I, London, 1935, p. 97 , no. 1 (as Tommaso Romani, called il Fornarino)
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Location: Not on display
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Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: William Young Ottley (Philipe, 16.vi.1814/1129 as Tommaso Romani detto il Fornarino 'The return of the prodigal - masterly pen and wash - rare' bt ? £1-18-0); Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Thomas Lawrence (L.2445); Previous owner/ex-collection: Samuel Woodburn (Christie's, 8.vi.1860/part of lot 882 as Fornarino 'The return of the prodigal, by FORNARINO,; and various specimens, by Italian masters', 10 in the lot, bt Phillipps £2-6-0); Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Thomas Phillipps; Previous owner/ex-collection: Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick
Acquisition date: 1946
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1946,0713.512
Conservation: Treatment: 20 Nov 2003; Treatment: 28 Aug 2003

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