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Sketchbook: 3693

Current Location: In storage

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Sketchbook

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Busiri, Giovanni Battista

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Description

Bound in vellum, covered in red paper. Collation: 1/14; 2/16; 3/16; 4/16; 5/16;/ 6/16, watermark, fleur-de-lys within a circle, and four end papers - watermark of J. Bolton 1814 and Britannia, coat of arms.

Notes

History note: General Sir George Cockburn, G.C.H., Shanganagh Library

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1922) by Perceval, Spencer George

Note

The book contains 98 folios. The artist has used the book as though it were horizontal. Each drawing has an inscription in brown ink in the artist's hand on the page preceeding it. Additional inscriptions in graphite are in the hand of Dr Thomas Ashby, and others are in an unidentified hand, possibly 18th C.

School or Style

Italian

Components of the work

Leaf Size Height 222 mm Width 166 mm
Book Size Height 237 mm Width 170 mm

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: (bookplate of General Sir George Cockburn)

Inscription present: This book was examined 12 Nov 1928 by Dr Thomas Ashby, Director of the / British School at Rome 1906-1925, who checked the inscriptions & added / others in pencil

  • Text: J.W. Goodison
  • Location: Fly leaf
  • Method of creation: Black ink
  • Text: (long division sum)
  • Location: Front end paper
  • Method of creation: Lilac crayon
  • Text: (a list of contents in Goodison's hand)
  • Location: Front
  • Method of creation: Slip

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Identification numbers

Accession number: 3693
Primary reference Number: 9769

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 3 August 2020

Associated departments & institutions

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

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