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
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Title | The 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. |
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. |
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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 |
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Accession number | DYCE.187 |
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Record created | June 8, 2009 |
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