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Object Type
Museum number: 1946,0713.835
Description: St John the Baptist; whole-length, seated on a rock, holding a staff and looking over his shoulder, a bearded man behind to right Pen and brown ink, with brown wash
Producer name: Circle/School of: Palma Giovane; Formerly attributed to: Agostino Carracci
School/style
Production date: 1559-1628
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 220 millimetres; Width: 165 millimetres
Curator's comments: Popham in Fenwick catalogue: 'the attribution to "Carrache", in pencil on the back of the mount, seems doubtful'. 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, pp. 46-7, no. 1 (as Attributed to Agostino Carracci)
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
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Acquisition name
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Thomas Hudson (L.2432); Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Thomas Lawrence (L.2445); Previous owner/ex-collection: Samuel Woodburn (Christie's, 7.vi.1860/part of lot 677 as Carracci 'An apostle preaching, AMANATI; St. John, CARACCI; others in the school of M. ANGELO, &c.', 14 in the lot, bt Phillipps £0-16-0); Previous owner/ex-collection: Sir Thomas Phillipps; Previous owner/ex-collection: Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick
Acquisition date: 1946
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1946,0713.835

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