drawing
- Museum number
- SL,5236.100
- Description
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An old man seated warming his hands at a fire (Winter); whole-length in profile to right
Pen and brown ink, with grey-brown wash
Verso: Sketch of part of a frieze
Pen and brown ink
- Production date
- 1513-1561
- Dimensions
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Height: 113 millimetres
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Width: 99 millimetres (upper corners cut)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Lit: J.A. Gere and P. Pouncey, 'Italian drawings in the BM, Artists working in Rome', London, 1983, no. 115
Gere & Pouncey 1983
The drawing was until recently on an old mount together with another, a 'Vanitas', both being attributed to Agostino Carracci (SL,5236.99).
The gesture of the hands and what seem to be indications of smoke or flames near the l. foot of the figure suggest a personification of Winter, often represented as an old man sitting by a fire warming his hands.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Acquisition notes
- Gere & Pouncey 1983
The figures "4.3." on the back of the old mount are a pricing code used by him. They indicate 20s.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,5236.100
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: A,21.100
