drawing
- Museum number
- SL,5223.32
- Description
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St James the Great, after Andrea Schiavone; turned to right, holding a staff and with a book under his right arm
Red chalk, on light brown prepared paper
- Production date
- 1525-1563
- Dimensions
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Height: 273 millimetres
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Width: 154 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Inspired by Schiavone's etching (Bartsch 53, p.89). Richardson rightly rejected Popham's suggestion that the Sloane drawings were studies for the etchings. They are in the same direction as the prints and also of poor quality
Lit.: A. E. Popham and K. M. Fenwick, 'European drawings in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada', Ottawa, 1965, under no. 20, p. 16; F.L. Richardson, 'Andrea Schiavone', Oxford, 1980, no. D226, pp. 139-40
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,5223.32
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: A,20.32