drawing
- Museum number
- 1980,0510.67
- Description
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Polyhymnia; whole-length standing holding two flaming torches, two figures on a couch behind and a numbered dial below
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1528-1583
- Dimensions
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Height: 134 millimetres
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Width: 197 millimetres (max with inscription)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Lit: J.A. Gere and P. Pouncey, 'Italian drawings in the BM, Artists working in Rome', London, 1983, no. 205
Gere & Pouncey 1983
The lot in Christie's sale consisted of eight similarly inscribed fragments evidently cut from the same manuscript (all repr. in sale catalogue; details of two, on a larger scale, in catalogue of 'Old Master Drawings presented by Jean-Luc Baroni at Douwes Fine Art', London, June-July 1980). Each fragment represents a Muse or other mythological personage traditionally associated with the invention of one of the arts or sciences. The presence of an eighteenth-century collector's mark on each fragment shows that the manuscript was mutilated at a fairly early date.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1980
- Acquisition notes
- 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.
Anon, property of a New Zealand collector
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1980,0510.67
