drawing;
album
- Museum number
- 2009,7108.1.258
- Description
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Study of a standing male nude, seeen in half profile from behind, twisting his torso right towards the viewer, his right arm raised behind his head and a small child at his feet to the left; after an unidentified artist purported to be Michelangelo; 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: 144 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 427 millimetres
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Width: 95 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- 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
- 2009,7108.1.258