drawing
- Museum number
- 2019,7015.426
- Description
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A group of five figure studies in an oval frame; after Francesco Primaticcio's 'Hylas and the Nymphs' (Gallery of Ulysees, Palace of Fontainebleau).
Pen, brown ink and wash over graphite
- Production date
- 1771-1776 (See curatorial comment)
- Dimensions
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Height: 164 millimetres
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Width: 230 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1943,1113.35 for a study after Primaticcio's Hylas and the Nymphs for the Gallery of Ulysees, Palace of Fontainebleau, previously owned by Joshua Reynolds to whom Northcote was apprenticed during the early 1770s, perhaps Northcote's source for this drawing.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2019
- Acquisition notes
- John Christian purchased the drawing from Abbott & Holder. He retained the invoice, no S10116, dated 14.06.09 which provides the following information:
"6534 Northcote (1746-1831) wash drawing, provenance Christopher Powney."
Acquired by The British Museum in a card mount annotated: "James Northcote (1746-1831), Wash Drawing, Prov Christopher Powney." Annotated verso with the stock number: 63534.
Attached to a secondary mount with border in brown and gold.
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
- 2019,7015.426
