drawing;
sketch-book;
architectural drawing
- Museum number
- 1947,0117.2.79.r
- Title
- Series: Opusculum de architectura
- Description
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Folio 77r: Water-mill driven by siphoned water. Cf. Mancini, fig. 42.
Pen and brown ink and brown wash, over brown chalk
- Production date
- 1474-1482
- Dimensions
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Height: 274 millimetres
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Width: 229 millimetres (covers)
- Curator's comments
- See comment for 19747,0117.2.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1990 April-Aug, BM, Treasures of P&D (no cat.)
2007/8 Oct-Jan, London, National Gallery, 'Renaissance Siena'
- Acquisition date
- 1947
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased from Andrew Hay in 1723 (inscribed on one of the additional leaves "13 di[o] Julij, A.D. 1723.") for Harley by Humphrey Wanley (Diary, BL, Lansdowne MS.772, fol.16, item 7). Transferred from the Department of Manuscripts.
Popham & Pouncey 1950
Purchased from Lady Oxford in 1753 with the rest of the Harley MSS. (Harley 3281); transferred from Dept. of MSS., 1947.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1947,0117.2.79.r
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Harley 3281 (British Library MSS number)