drawing
- Museum number
- Ff,4.89
- Description
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Standing figure of a bishop giving a blessing; wearing vestments and mitre, holding staff, the entrance to a building behind and at r, trees and a church in distance to left.
Pen and brown ink; the roundel has been made up on left and right with brown paper.
- Production date
- 1500-1522 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 221 millimetres
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Width: 221 millimetres (circular)
- Curator's comments
- Check Butts, 2006
Rowlands 1993
LITERATURE: F. Winkler, Prussian Jahrbuch, l, 1929, p. 43; Winkler, K&S, p. 105, column 1
Although the standard of the copyist's work is not high, the details of the composition are sufficiently clear for one to be reasonably certain, on the basis of an analogy with his known work, that the original after which this is a copy was by Kulmbach. Winkler noted it as such in 1929, but because of the Second World War could not verify this when he came to write his exhaustive study of Kulmbach's drawings. Perhaps the original was a companion to the designs for glass-paintings ‘An abbot saint' and ‘St Wenceslaus’ (Winkler, ‘K&S’, pls. 108, 109), both now in Dresden (Kupferstich-Kabinett). The architectural background, however, recalls the quadrangular designs for glass-paintings of the abbots of the Schottenkloster St Egidien, Nuremberg, of which there must have been at least six in the series (Winkler, ‘K&S’, pls. 131-3).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1973, BM, Netherlandish prints and drawings (no cat.)
- Acquisition date
- 1799
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Ff,4.89