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The Holy Family: PD.123-1961

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

The Holy Family
Two studies of a hand and forearm; Study of a child [erased]

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola)

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Notes

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

Legal notes

Bequeathed 1960.

Measurements and weight

Height: 155 mm
Width: 144 mm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1961) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray

School or Style

Italian

Materials used in production

Brown ink
Brown wash
Whitening

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Techniques used in production

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 or legends present

Inscription present: in a contemporary hand

  • Text: Richi de ujater pour di do roba [?]
  • Location: Verso, upper left
  • Method of creation: Brown ink
  • Text: Sir. P. Lely had an old sheet writt / concerning this drawing (in a 17th or 18th C. hand)
  • Location: Old mount, upper left
  • Method of creation: Brown ink

Inscription present: with traces of an erased, indecipherable inscription

  • Text: Parmigianino from Vol 2nd No 50
  • Location: Old mount, lower right
  • Method of creation: Brown ink

References and bibliographic entries

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Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.123-1961
Primary reference Number: 7644
Lugt: 2092

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 7 April 2025

Associated departments & institutions

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

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