1932.291: Designs for Silk Weaving and Embroidery (recto and verso)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1932.291

People

Unidentified Artist

Title

Designs for Silk Weaving and Embroidery (recto and verso)

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Previous title: Drawings of Imprese

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1390

Places

Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Veneto, Venice

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/298554

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Brown ink and brown wash on cream parchment, pricked for transfer

Dimensions

26.9 × 19.2 cm (10 9/16 × 7 9/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Charles A. Loeser, Florence, Italy, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1932.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Charles A. Loeser

Accession Year

1932

Object Number

1932.291

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Alfred H. Barr, Jr., ed., Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY, 1936), no. 45, p. 249 as Lombard School, 15th century
• Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 23, p. 18; vol. 2, repr. figs. 23 (recto) and 24 (verso) as...
• Bryan Holme, ed., Master Drawings, The Studio Publications Incorporated (New York, NY and London, England, 1943), pl. 3
• Agnes Mongan, "The Fogg Art Museum's Collection of Drawings", Harvard Library Bulletin, Harvard University (Cambridge, 1958), vol. 3, no. 2, March, pp. 5-9, p. 201, repr. as pl. II
• Maria Fossi Todorow, L'Italia dalle origine a Pisanello, Fratelli Fabbri Editori (Milan, Italy, 1970), p. 70, fig. 19 (verso) as Anonymous Lombard
• Konrad Oberhuber, ed., Old Master Drawings: Selections from the Charles A. Loeser Bequest, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1979), cat. no. 2, p. 16, and p. 7, recto repr.
• Bernhard Degenhart and Annegrit Schmitt, Corpus der Italienischen Zeichnungen, 1300-1450, Teil II: Venedig; Addenda zu Süd-und Mittelitalien, 4 vols., Mann (Berlin, Germany, 1980), vol. 1, no. 654, pp. 163-166, figs. 257, 273, 283, 287 and pls. 75 and 76
• Cornelia Syre, "Ein neu entdecktes Musterbuch des 14. Jahrhunderts in 'Corpus der italienischen Zeichnungen'", Die Weltkunst (October 1981), vol. LI, no. 20, pp. 2986-87, p. 2987
• Beverly Louise Brown, Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1981), cat. no. 1, p. 17, and p. 6
• Barbara Beaucamp-Markowsky, "Bernhart [sic] Degenhart und Annegrit Schmitt: Corpus der italienischen Zeichnungen 1300-1450, Teil II: Venedig, Addenda zu Sud-und Mittelitalien, Berlin-1980", Bulletin de Liaison du Centre International d'Etude des Textiles Anciens (1982), no. 55-56, pp. 26-30d, pp. 26-30, fig. 5 (recto) [drawing mentioned specifically on pp. 26 and 28]
• Hans Belting, "Die Werkzeichnung auf dem Weg zur Künstlerzeichnung", Kunstchronik (1982), vol. XXXV, no. 2, pp. 59-71, general ref. to all drawings in Venetian sketchbook on p. 69
• 65 Zeichnungen 1389-1880, auct. cat., C. G. Boerner (Leipzig) (Düsseldorf, Germany, 1986), p. 2
• Lisa Monnas, "The Artists and the Weavers: The Design of Woven Silks in Italy 1350-1550", Apollo (1987), vol. CXXV, no. 304, pp. 416-424, pp. 418 and 424, under fn. 10
• Agnes Mongan, Konrad Oberhuber, and Jonathan Bober, The Famous Italian Drawings at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Silvana Editoriale (Milan, Italy, 1988), cat. no. 3, n.p., and pp. 15, 16, and 17, repr. (recto) color
• Francis Ames-Lewis, "Drawing for Panel Painting in Trecento Italy: Reflections on Workshop Practice", Apollo (1992), vol. CXXXII, no. 364, pp. 353-361, pp. 355-356, fig. 3 (detail of verso), p. 361, fn. 20
• Hein-Thomas Schulze Altcappenberg, Die italienischen Zeichnungen des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts im Berliner Kupferstichkabinett: Kritischer Katalog, exh. cat., G + H Verlag (Berlin, Germany, 1995), p. 36
• Robert W. Scheller and Michael Hoyle, Exemplum: Model-Book Drawings and the Practice of Artistic Transmission in the Middle-Ages (ca. 900--ca. 1470), Amsterdam University Press (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1995), under no. 25, pp. 265-275, specifically pp. 265, 267, 271, 273, fns. 2, 7 and 8
• Albert Jan Elen, Italian Late-Medieval and Renaissance Drawing-Books from Giovannino de'Grassi to Palma Giovane: A Codicological Approach, Privately Published (Leiden, 1995), under no. 4, pp. 169-172
• Edward Saywell, "Guide to Drawing Terms and Techniques", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1998), vol. VI, no. 2, pp. 30-39, p. 35 under "Parchment"
• Edward Saywell, Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, 1998), vol. 6, no. 2, checklist no. 1, p. 26, pp. 7-8, and p. 23, fn. 5, fig. 1 (recto)
• Dr. Carmen Bambach, Drawing and Painting in the Italian Renaissance Workshop: Theory and Practice, 1300-1600, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1999), p. 143, repr. recto fig. 129 as Late-fourteenth-century Venetian artist
• Carlo Francini, "L'inventario della collezione Loeser alla Villa Gattaia", Bollettino della Società di Studi Fiorentini (2000), no. 6, p. 121 ("Cartella I")
• Howard Coutts, "An Early Italian Textile Drawing in the Victoria and Albert Museum", The Burlington Magazine (June 2008), CL no. 1263, pp. 389-392, pp. 389-390

Exhibition History

• Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 03/01/1936 - 05/31/1936
• Prints and Drawings of the Quattrocento, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/03/1981 - 08/31/1981
• Behind the Line: The Materials and Techniques of Old Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/03/1998 - 12/30/1998

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