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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
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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

Verification Level

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