1965.33: Two Designs for Caskets

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.33

People

Unidentified Artist

Title

Two Designs for Caskets

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

15th century

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Padua

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/296559

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink

Dimensions

7.6 × 25.7 cm (3 × 10 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• watermark: Watermark is only partially visible. Compare Briquet no. 746, Lucca, 1469-73; variations include papers from Venice which are datable to c. 1471-73. Beta required.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

R. Kirk Askew, Jr., New York, NY, Gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. R. Kirk Askew, Jr. in Memory of Paul J. Sachs

Accession Year

1965

Object Number

1965.33

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Beverly Louise Brown, Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1981), cat. no. 21, p. 19, as Paduan School, last quarter of 15th century
• Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), p. 24, repr. fig. 4, as Paduan, late 15th century

Exhibition History

• Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/03/1981 - 08/31/1981

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