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Design for a crozier

Drawing
About 1550 (Drawn)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This drawing is the left part of a sheet acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1941, Museum number E.2-1941. The designer was once thought to be the Italian artist Perino del Vaga, because of the fragmentary inscription, but now it remains anonymous.


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleDesign for a crozier (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and brown ink
Brief description
Design for a crozier. On the back, two designs for pediments, about 1550. Anonymous.
Physical description
Design for a crozier. On the back, two designs for pediments.
Dimensions
  • Height: 25.3cm
  • Width: 10.9cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
Inscribed in ink Pier...[part cut away] Inscribed on the back in another hand Man Vit. Pisano [?] and with accounts
Historical context
For the rejection of an attribution to Perino del Vaga and a discussion of the drawings, see Peter Ward-Jackson Italian Drawings, Vol. 1. 1979, cat. 534, pp.235-6 and Peter Fuhring Design into Art Drawings for Architecture and Ornament The Lodewijk Houthakker Collection, 1989, Vol.1, cat.506, p.331.
Subjects depicted
Summary
This drawing is the left part of a sheet acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1941, Museum number E.2-1941. The designer was once thought to be the Italian artist Perino del Vaga, because of the fragmentary inscription, but now it remains anonymous.
Bibliographic reference
Peter Fuhring Design into Art Drawings for Architecture and Ornament The Lodewijk Houthakker Collection, 1989, Vol.1, cat. 506, p. 331.
Collection
Accession number
E.1946-1991

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Record createdMarch 4, 2009
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