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The flight of Lot and his daughters from Sodom: 2786a

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

The flight of Lot and his daughters from Sodom

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Baglioni, Cesare (Attributed to)

Entities

Categories

Notes

History note: Sir Joshua Reynolds (Lugt 2364); Sir Frank Brangwyn, R.A.

Measurements and weight

Height: 182 mm
Width: 297 mm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1943) by Brangwyn, Frank

School or Style

Italian

Materials used in production

White chalk
Brown ink
Brown wash

Components of the work

Support composed of paper ( light brown)

Techniques used in production

Drawing (image-making) : Pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white (partly reduced), on light brown paper

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: 49
  • Location: Mount
  • Method of creation: Brown ink
  • Text: Early Tuscan / Alessandro Baldovinetti
  • Location: Mount
  • Method of creation: Black ink

Inscription present: erased

  • Text: Beccafumi
  • Location: Mount
  • Method of creation: Black ink
  • Text: From the collection of Sir Joshua Reynolds see the attribution in his handwriting on the back (all of the above in same hand)
  • Location: Mount
  • Method of creation: Black ink
  • Text: & from mount? also Bishop of Arezzo (in Michael Jaffe's hand)
  • Location: Mount
  • Method of creation: Graphite
  • Text: This drawing was attributed to Parmeggiano but I believe it to be near 100 years older & I should think it to be Filippo Lippi who flourished in the year 1400 (in Sir Joshua Reynold's hand)
  • Location: Old mount, verso
  • Method of creation: Brown ink
  • Text: this is evidently a confusion of the name on the part of Sir Joshua Reynolds & should read Filippino Lippi
  • Location: Old mount, verso
  • Method of creation: Graphite
  • Text: c. 1570-90 probably Italian but possibly Flemish (in Sir Anthony Blunt's hand)
  • Location: Old mount, verso
  • Method of creation: Graphite
  • Text: Sch 1771 (?)
  • Location: Old mount, verso
  • Method of creation: Red ink
  • Text: £318
  • Location: Old mount, verso
  • Method of creation: Graphite
  • Text: £20
  • Location: Old mount, verso
  • Method of creation: Graphite

Identification numbers

Accession number: 2786a
Primary reference Number: 7185
Lugt: 2364

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 11 March 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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