drawing
- Museum number
- Pp,3.194
- Description
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Diana discovering the pregnancy of Callisto; group of semi-nude women, one on the ground at left being uncovered, a woman seated at right with a jar spilling water, trees behind
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk, on two conjoined sheets of blue paper
Verso: Portion of a figure study
Black chalk, on blue paper
- Production date
- 1579-1623
- Dimensions
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Height: 207 millimetres
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Width: 324 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Attribution to Rottenhammer first made by Otto Benesch. Earlier attributions to Tintoretto and school of Palma il Giovane. According to David McTavish, an early copy of the drawing is in Stockholm (Anckassrands Collection, 575).
Lit.: J.D. Passavant, 'Tour of a German Artist in England', London, 1836, (translation from the original German ed. published in Frankfurt, 1833), II, p. 106, no. 1 (as Paolo Veronese)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1990 April-Aug, BM, Treasures of P&D (no cat.)
1978, BM, Gainsborough and Reynolds in the BM, no 240
- Acquisition date
- 1824
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Pp,3.194
