Designs for Silverware: PD.6-1948

Titles

Designs for Silverware
Libro de Dissegni per Farvasella di Argento

Maker(s)

After Giulio Romano (Giulio Pippi) (Draughtsman)

Description

Sketchbook is bound in vellum and consists of 101 leaves

Notes

History note: Greffier Fagel, sold London, J. Philipe's, 27 May 1801, and suceeding days, lot 122 (3rd day); bt. Phillipe (£1.9.0); A.N.L. Munby

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1948) by Munby, A. N. L.

School or Style

Components of the work

Leave Size Height 397 mm Width 267 mm
Book Size Height 406 mm Width 280 mm

Inscription or legends present

Text: LIBRO DE / DEISSEGNI / per / FARVASELLA / di / ARGENTO
Location: On the spine
Method of creation: Brown ink

Text: 3 day / 122
Location: Inside front cover, upper left
Method of creation: Brown ink

Text: 4 A7
Location: Inside front cover
Method of creation: Label

Text: Ex Libris of A.N.L. Munby
Location: Inside front cover

Inscription present: griffin as crest, traces

Location: Inside front cover
Method of creation: Book-plate

Inscription present: in the hand of J.W. Goodison

Text: The 101 numbered leaves appear all to consist of the same / paper. No. 1 has a water-mark, which appears on many of the subsequent ones, corresponding to Briquet 969, found at / Lucca 1573-82 (Arch. di Stato) and Fabriano 1569-76. / This fly-leaf and the two at the end have a water-mark dated 1769' JWG / 10.4.48
Location: Flyleaf
Method of creation: Black ink

References and bibliographic entries

Italian Drawings, Raphael and his circle page(s): 70 ff.
'Ottavio Strada and the Goldsmith's Designs of Giulio Romano' page(s): 10-13
'Some spurious antique vase designs of the 16th Century' page(s): 378-386
Virtuoso Goldsmiths and the Triumph of Mannerism 1540-1620 page(s): 137/8
Zeichnungen von Giulio Romano page(s): 61-186

Related exhibitions

Italian Drawings: Highlights from the Collection

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.6-1948
Primary reference Number: 9514
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 7 September 2020

Associated departments & institutions

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

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