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Object Type
Museum number: Pp,5.115
Description: Cavalry on the march; seen from behind Pen and brown ink, with brown wash
Producer name
School/style: Roman; French
Production date: 1621-1675
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 100 millimetres; Width: 153 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: This belongs to the same series as those in the BM Cortese album (Turner no. 52). Lit.: N. Turner, 'Italian Drawings in the BM, Roman Baroque Drawings', London, 1999, I, no. 44 (with previous literature) Turner 1999 As Popham first pointed out, this and Pp,5.114 belong to the same series as most of the studies in the British Museum album of Giacomo's drawings (see 1946,0713.1083 to 1114). See also Ff,2.186. Literature: Popham, 1935, II, p.215 (as Jacques Courtois); Holt, 1966, p. 346.
Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 2000 Mar-Jun, Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizione, 'Roma Antica e Moderna..'
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Acquisition name
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Collegio Romano; Previous owner/ex-collection: Giovanni Pietro Bellori; Previous owner/ex-collection: Pierre Crozat (Sale, Grands Augustins, Paris, expert P.-J. Mariette, 10 April to 13 May 1741, one of a group of drawings sold as lots 289-92 (i.e. Mariette, 1741, p. 29).); Previous owner/ex-collection: Saint-Morys (by descent to his son Comte Carrière); Previous owner/ex-collection: Carrière (L.474)
Acquisition date: 1824
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Pp,5.115
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