1919.560.23: Blank page; verso: Holy Family, after Annibale Carracci

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1919.560.23

People

Sir Joshua Reynolds, British (Plympton, England 1723 - 1792 London, England)
After Annibale Carracci, Italian (Bologna, Italy 1560 - 1609 Rome, Italy)

Title

Blank page; verso: Holy Family, after Annibale Carracci

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing, sketchbook page

Date

18th century

Culture

British

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/179916

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black chalk on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

19.8 x 16.1 cm (7 13/16 x 6 5/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: bottom half of Britannia watermark [Full watermark: Britannia figure encircled with the words EJUSQUE / LIBERTATE / PRO PATRIA, the whole crowned; with countermark GR, crowned (similar to Churchill 225, also 219-236; similar to Heawood 214, also 201-221)]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

W. A. White, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1919

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of W. A. White

Accession Year

1919

Object Number

1919.560.23

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• "Reynolds's Sketch-Books", Athenaeum (May 24, 1856), no. 1491, pp. 655-656, p. 656
• Callum Reid, "New Documents Concerning Annibale Carracci's 'Holy Family' in Melbourne", The Burlington Magazine (August 2015), CLVII, pp. 532-534, p. 534, repr. p. 534 as fig. 13

Related Works

• 1919.560.1-33

  Sir Joshua Reynolds

  Sketchbook

  Drawings

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