drawing
- Museum number
- Pp,1.40
- Description
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Portrait of an unknown old man, one of eleven drawings of heads; head and shoulders slightly to left, looking down, with long beard and moustache and wearing a hood
Metalpoint, on grey prepared paper
- Production date
- 16thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Height: 206 millimetres
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Width: 151 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Netherlandish early XVIc, working in Italy.
See PP-1-39 to 50. The head recalls that of the old man on the r in the fresco by Michelangelo of the Crucifixion of St Peter in the Cappella Paolina, opened 1549.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1824
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Pp,1.40
