drawing
- Museum number
- 2003,0629.11
- Description
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View of the Roman Forum and the Temple of Castor and Pollux; open space left, ringed by buildings in middle distance; the three columns of the temple, right; veiled female figure in foreground
Pen and brown ink, brown wash
Verso, landscape sketch with trees and a house seen from above
Black chalk
- Production date
- 1533-1610
- Dimensions
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Height: 183 millimetres
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Width: 252 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Copied after a Dosio drawing in the Uffizi (2572/A)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2003
- 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.
According to Ruth Rubinstein's notes now in departmental dossier this was acquired from Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox who bought it in a group lot 345 at Stirling Maxwell sale of ex-Cassiano dal Pozzo drawings held at Phillips12/12/90
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2003,0629.11