print
- Museum number
- V,1.24
- Description
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The Hellespontine Sibyl, facing left and sitting on a wooden chair, she is holding a book in her left hand and a scroll in her right. c.1480-90
Engraving
- Production date
- 1480-1490 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 173 millimetres
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Width: 105 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The print belongs to a group of twenty-four 'Prophets' and twelve 'Sibyls' executed in a style called by Hind the 'Broad Manner' and now attributed to Francesco Rosselli; the group is based on the earlier series of the same subject engraved in the 'Fine Manner' by Baccio Baldini (for a fuller discussion of the issue see the entry for Hind C.II.11.B.II: P&D 1868-8-22-10).
The present engraving is the third state of the print, heavily reworked; in the second and third states shading had been added in areas that were white in the first state, such as on the fold of the cloak descending from the r shoulder, the cloak to the r of the sibyl's l arm and the side of the r knee.
Examples of the first state are in London (BM: P&D 1845-8-25-243), Cambridge (Fitzwilliam Museum), Vienna, in the Cincinnati Art Museum and in the Rothschild collection (Louvre, Paris).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1806
- Acquisition notes
- for comment see V,1.12
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- V,1.24