Design for a crozier
Drawing
About 1550 (Drawn)
About 1550 (Drawn)
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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
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Object type | |
Title | Design 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. |
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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. |
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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 created | March 4, 2009 |
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