drawing
- Museum number
- 1947,0510.1
- Description
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Cleopatra greeting Antony; attendants and a ship behind at l, soldiers standing by statues of sphinxes at r
Pen and black ink, with grey wash and watercolour, over black chalk, squared for transfer
- Production date
- 1773
- Dimensions
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Height: 269 millimetres
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Width: 361 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See report to Trustees, dated 2 May 1947 by Edward Croft-Murray. The drawings were acquired as being by the XVIIc decorative painter, Tommaso Costa (1635-1690) and as important forerunners of the later work by the Tiepolos and others.
They are in fact by Tommaso Costa the XVIIIc Venetian artist who died in 1773.
Bibliography:
U. Thieme and E. Becker, 'Allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon', revd by K.G. Sauer, 21 (Munich and Leipzig 1999) 456, s.v.Tommaso Costa.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1947
- Acquisition notes
- The Sotheby catalogue lists this under 'Various properties'. The report to the Trustees dated 2 May 1947 states that they had earlier been seen by Popham when in a private collection.
This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1947,0510.1
