Current Location: In storage
Titles
Album containing a dedicatory sonnet and 48 drawings
Maker(s)
Draughtsman:
Pinet, Antoine du
Entities
Categories
Description
Each of the drawings is framed by a border of gold paint of varying size according to the depth of the painted area. The drawings on white laid paper, watermarked with a bunch of grapes are bound into an album with a contemporary gold-tooled limp vellum cover bearing the arms, recto and verso of Louise of Lorraine (1553-1601). This, in turn, is bound into an eighteenth century French red morocco gilt binding. The spine is lettered in gold (see 'inscriptions/marks'.) Each of the drawings is framed by a border of gold paint of varying size according to the depth of the painted area. Blank ff not detailed elsewhere.
Notes
History note: Louise de Lorraine, Queen of France; Paul Girardot de Prefond; Thomas Philip, 2nd Earl de Grey, by descent to Baroness Lucas of Crudwell and Dingwall
Legal notes
Accepted in lieu of Inheritance Tax by H.M. Government and allocated to the Museum.
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Allocated
(1994)
by
H.M. Government
Note
Born at Besancon, Antoine du Pinet [or du Pinay], was an author of several books, including a 'Historia Plantarum' published in Lyons in 1561. He had a reputation as a good draughtsman and died in Paris.
School or Style
French
Components of the work
Sheet Size
Height 204 mm
Width 139 mm
Inscription or legends present
- Text: FLEUR / PEINT / ET / MINIAT
- Location: Spine
- Method of creation: Embossed gold
Inscription present: citron Morocco
- Text: EX / MUSAEO / PAULI / GIRARDOT / DE / PREFOND
- Location: Fly leaf
- Method of creation: Book plate
Inscription present: paper
- Text: Wrest Park
- Location: Fly leaf
- Method of creation: Book plate
Inscription present: library mark
- Text: AL45/rec/;
- Location: Fly leaf of the original limp vellum cover
- Method of creation: Graphite
- Text: I[?]M55/45
- Location: Fly leaf of the original limp vellum cover
- Method of creation: Graphite
- Text: no. 115/P
- Location: Fly leaf of the original limp vellum cover
- Method of creation: Graphite
- Text: T[?].9
- Location: Fly leaf of the original limp vellum cover
- Method of creation: Graphite
- Text: 2.12.6
- Location: F.1, upper right
- Method of creation: Graphite
Identification numbers
Accession number: PD.217-1994
Primary reference Number: 30060
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Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 18 December 2023
Last processed: Monday 18 December 2023
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
