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The Holy Family Two studies of a hand and forearm; Study of a child [erased]
Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola)
(Draughtsman)
History note: Sir Peter Lely (Lugt 2092); the Earls of Pembroke; Pembroke sale, Sotheby's, 10 July 1917, lot 432, bt. Charles B.O. Clarke; Louis C.G. Clarke
Bequeathed 1960.
Height: 155 mm
Width: 144 mm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1961)
by
Clarke, Louis Colville Gray
Brown ink
Brown wash
Whitening
Support: composed of paper
Drawing : Recto: pen, brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white
verso: anatomical studies: red chalk; study of a child: pen and brown ink on paper
Inscription present: in a contemporary hand
Inscription present: with traces of an erased, indecipherable inscription
Accession number: PD.123-1961
Primary reference Number: 7644
Lugt: 2092
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2020) "Drawing"
Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/7644 Accessed: 2021-10-20 05:31:39
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Accession Number: PD.3-1947
Accession Number: PD.148-1994
Accession Number: 3061
Accession Number: Marlay 40-pl.38
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