drawing
- Museum number
- SL,5227.10
- Description
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Portrait of Pietro Aretino, after Marcantonio's engraving after Titian; head and shoulders to front, looking to right, with wavy beard and moustache, wearing a soft turban-like hat; lifted from an album of miscellaneous drawings. 1618
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, heightened with white (partly oxidised), on light grey-brown prepared paper
- Production date
- 1618
- Dimensions
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Height: 200 millimetres
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Width: 148 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Hind wrongly gives reg.no as SL.5227-01. A copy of Marcantonio's rare engraving (Bartsch 513), which reproduces a lost picture by Titian.
For copies and imitations of prints, see Christian Tico Seifert, 'Von Amateuren und Virtuosen: Ueberlegungen zu Zeichnungen nach druckgraphischen Vorlagen', in Markus A. Castor et al. (ed.) 'Druckgraphik: Zwischen Reproduktion und Invention', Berlin-Munich, 2010, pp.11-24.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,5227.10
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: A,06.10
