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The Contest Between Apollo and Pan (after Giulio Romano)

Drawing

Pen and bistre depicting a group of Apollo and Marsyas contending, and seated opposite each other in very easy attitudes. An hexangular composition.


Object details

Object type
Drawing
TitleThe Contest Between Apollo and Pan (after Giulio Romano) (published title)
Materials and techniques
Pen and brown ink, with dark brown wash; damade and losses at lower left where iron-gall ink has eaten through paper.
Pen
Bistre
Brown Ink
Brown Wash
Brief description
Drawing, 'The Contest Between Apollo and Pan (after Giulio Romano)', Jan de Bisschop (copy after). 17th century
Physical description
Pen and bistre depicting a group of Apollo and Marsyas contending, and seated opposite each other in very easy attitudes. An hexangular composition.
Dimensions
  • Height: 6.33in
  • Width: 8.75in
  • Height: 167 millimetres
  • Width: 231 millimetres
Dimensions taken from: DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874.
Marks and inscriptions
Inscribed at lower right, in brown ink (with the museum's Dyce inv. no.), 187. Inscribed on the old (Richardson?) gilded mount (trimmed to an octagon), at lower right, in a nineteenth century hand, in pencil (with Dyce's original inv. no.), 616.
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Subjects depicted
Harp
Marsyas
Apollo
Bibliographic references
  • DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874.
  • Jane Shoaf Turner and Christopher White, Catalogue of Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014, Vol. I, Cat. 24, illus. p. 68.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
DYCE.187

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Record createdJune 8, 2009
Record URL
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