drawing

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Object Type
Museum number: 1946,0713.811
Description: A man (Samson?) in profile to right, carrying a block of stone on his shoulders Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, squared for transfer, lower part of sheet pricked
Producer name: Drawn by: Anonymous; Formerly attributed to: Pietro Testa
School/style
Production date: 17thC
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 245 millimetres; Width: 159 millimetres
Curator's comments: The attribution to Testa in the Fenwick catalogue was made by A.E Popham. 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. 167, no. 6 (as Pietro Testa)
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
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Acquisition name
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Nathaniel Hone (L.2793); Previous owner/ex-collection: Saint-Morys (by descent to his son Comte Carrière); Previous owner/ex-collection: Carrière (L.474); Previous owner/ex-collection: Samuel Woodburn (Christie's, 12.vi.1860/part of lot 1085 'Various others, by S. Rosa, Tintoretto, P. Testa, &c.', 26 in the lot, bt Phillipps £0-12-0); Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Thomas Phillipps; Previous owner/ex-collection: Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick
Acquisition date: 1946
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1946,0713.811

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