drawing
- Museum number
- Ff,2.167
- Description
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A seated hooded woman reaches out to take the hand of a man standing at right (Judah and Tamar)
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1660-1665 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 145 millimetres
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Width: 102 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Dated by Mahoney on stylistic grounds to the first half of 1660s; a study for a painting in a private collection London (ex coll. Sir Francis Child), sold at Christie's, 30 March 1979, lot 20. The subject of the drawing was previously thought to be a 'Noli me tangere' (Christ's instruction to Mary Magdalen not to touch his resurrected body) , for the painting see J. Scott, 'Salvator Rosa, his life and times', New Haven, 1995, p. 223.
Lit: M. Mahoney, 'The Drawings of Salvator Rosa', New York, 1977, I, no. 72.1, p. 633; N. Turner, 'Italian Baroque Drawings', London, 1980, no. 61, pp. 140-1;
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1799
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Ff,2.167
