drawing
- Museum number
- SL,5237.86
- Description
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A dromedary camel standing in profile to left
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk
Verso: A dromedary sitting and another standing, seen from behind
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk
- Production date
- 1513-1561
- Dimensions
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Height: 195 millimetres
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Width: 313 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. 117
Gere & Pouncey 1983
As Dürer in the Sloane MS Inventory. Popham, who was responsible for the attribution to Franco, pointed out that the three camels on the sheet occur grouped together and in reverse in the l. background of his etching of the 'Gathering of Manna' (B. xvi, 1 p. 119, 4), and that the sitting camel on the verso occurs, in the same direction, in the border of the maiolica design, 1860,0616.39. Signorina R. Parma has pointed out (orally) that the standing camel on the verso also occurs in the 'Adoration of the Magi' on the vault of the Gabrielli Chapel in S. Maria sopra Minerva.
Also on the recto is a separate study of the camel's l. foreleg; and on the verso one of the seated camels muzzle with the mouth open, together with two slight sketches of the legs of a recumbent man and a recumbent woman, both seen from the front.
Literature, A.E. Popham, OMD, ii (1927-8), p. 22.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- SL,5237.86
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: A,22.86