Design for a candelabra
Drawing
16th century (made)
16th century (made)
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Design for a candelabra in pen, ink and wash.
Object details
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| Title | Design for a candelabra (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and ink and wash |
| Brief description | Drawing, Design for a candelabra, copy after Francesco Salviati, Italian School, pen and ink and wash, 16th century |
| Physical description | Design for a candelabra in pen, ink and wash. |
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| Production type | Unique |
| Object history | PROVENANCE Bought from T. M. Whitehead 1867 |
| Bibliographic reference | Ward Jackson, Peter, Italian Drawings. Volume One: 14th - 16th century, London, 1979, cat. 292, p. 141, illus.
The following is the full text of the entry:
copies after
SALVIATI, FRANCESCO
288/307
Designs (29 on 20 sheets) for goldsmith's work
Pen and ink and wash
Size of largest sheet 21 ½ x 15 ¾ (547 x 400); of smallest sheet 15 ½ x 10 ¾ (394 x 273)
5160 to 5176, 5229, 5230, 5398
PROVENANCE Bought from T. M. Whitehead 1867
LITERATURE J. F. Hayward, 'The Mannerist goldsmiths', part I (Italian sources), and part 3 (Italian influence in the designs of Erasmus Hornick), in The Connoisseur, 149, 1962, pp. 157-64 and 158, 1965, pp. 144- 49 (with illustration of no. 5168)
The drawings, when bought in 1867, were bound in a vellum-covered album containing 276 sheets of designs for goldsmiths' work, from which they were subsequently removed. The title-page is dated 1560 and states that the drawings illustrate the treasury of the Emperor Rudolf II. This statement is incorrect and was not made, presumably, by the artist or the original owner; but the date may be correct and show when the album was formed. Most of the drawings are of northern origin, and many of them have been attributed by Hayward to the Antwerp goldsmith Erasmus Hornick. Of some of the drawings it is difficult to say whether they were made north or south of the Alps, but the twenty sheets listed below form a fairly homogeneous group that may be attributed to an Italian artist. Hayward has pointed out that thirteen of these Italian drawings are replicas of drawings in the possession of Dr Pirman at Stockholm: there are other replicas in other collections, mostly single sheets. Hayward considers that the existence of such replicas proves that there was a trade in the sale of such drawings as patterns for goldsmiths in Italy and elsewhere. The drawings show many characteristics of Salviati's taste in ornament, but they look like copies. More information on the Hornick album and an account of other similar collections of drawings are given in three articles by J. F. Hayward in The Burlington Magazine, 110, 1968, pp. 200-06 and pp. 383-89; 114, 1972, pp. 378-86. Our drawings show the following utensils:
288/292
Designs (5) for candlesticks and candelabra [museum no.] 5230
Nos. 289 and 291 not illustrated |
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| Accession number | 5230 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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