drawing;
print study
- Museum number
- 1993,0403.9
- Description
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Way to Calvary; Christ carrying the cross, surrounded by soldiers, in a landscape with hills, trees and crowd on right. c.1725
Pen and brown ink with brown wash over some black chalk
- Production date
- 1720-1730
- Dimensions
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Height: 520 millimetres
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Width: 378 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The drawing is connected, with differences, to a print by Milani dated 1725, in which the composition is adjusted to a horizontal format, but many of the figures are unaltered. Another drawing for the print is in the Louvre, C. Loisel, in exhib. cat. Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts, 'Le génie de Bologne des Carracci aux Gandolfi: dessins des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (Le dessin en Italie dans les collections publiques françaises), 2006, no. 101
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1995-6 Nov-Apr, BM, Recent Acquisitions (no cat.)
- Acquisition date
- 1993
- 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.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1993,0403.9