drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 2009,7108.1.137
- Description
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Study of two men walking with their heads lowered, both stepping forwards with the right foot and wearing doublet and hose, the figure on the left with a sword in his right hand and a cloak draped over his left arm, the figure on the right with the handle of a sword visible in his right hand, and his left arm raised and cropped by the edge of the page; after figures in Spinello Aretino's "The Fight of St. Ephise against the Pagans of Sardinia" fresco in the Campo Santo, Pisa; from an album of 459 drawings
Graphite
- Production date
- 1825-1834 (about)
- Dimensions
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Height: 576 millimetres (album)
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Height: 108 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 427 millimetres
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Width: 79 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Most of the frescoes in the Campo Santo are now largely lost, but can be identified from Carlo Lusiano's etchings published in his "Pitture a fresco del Campo Santo di Pisa", Florence, 1812. For a description of this album and its history, see the curatorial comment for 2009,7108.1.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2009
- Acquisition notes
- Most of the drawings in this album were purchased by the 2nd Baron Northwick at a sale of Joseph West's drawings at Christie's 6-7 June 1834. They were placed in the album after the sale and it passed by descent through his family until the Northwick Park sale in 1965 when it was purchased by the late Edward Croft-Murray. It was consigned by his widow to Christie's South Kensington sale, 9.vii.2009, lot 633 but not sold and then presented to the BM by Mrs Croft-Murray in memory of her late husband.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2009,7108.1.137
