drawing
- Museum number
- 2008,7086.2
- Description
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A classical battle with infantry and cavalry
Pen and brown and black ink, brown and grey wash, heightened with white (partly discoloured), over red chalk, pen squaring over incised lines, made up areas
Verso: The Death of the Virgin with apostles gathered around the bedside and Christ and God the Father appearing at upper right; and a crowd of kneeling figures around a sculpted figure in a niche
Pen and brown and black ink, brown wash, squared in black ink (Death of Virgin); pen and brown ink, brown wash (adoring figures)
- Production date
- 1600 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 209 millimetres
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Width: 557 millimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2008
- 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
- 2008,7086.2
