1592951842000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-38183 1753725820179 1753696763000 1753725816653 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-38183 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/38183 dbe94630-3e78-3072-b925-8d4f6fb7bb1f 8 reference term-101697 adlib-term-101697 613a191a-56ce-3317-8b6e-e5df00e65022 sketchbook reference term-37166 adlib-term-37166 feba6d99-fb75-3d35-b009-236d788146f6 laid paper Support Height mm 213 Width mm 150 Leaf Size Paintings, Drawings and Prints 832/5.f.18 1 accession number 832/5.f.18 38183 priref 38183 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/38183 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/38183 upper right brown ink 18 [i] preceding four words crossed through in brown ink; [ii] preceding word crossed through in brown ink recto brown ink I saw, I think upwards of [i] 26 small subjects / from the New Testament & c figures about 9 or / 10 Inches high, in the Sacristy of / Santa Croce at Florence painted by this / Artist, the compositions are distinct & striking / the perfection of the characters &[ii] the force of action / & expression is astonishing & a little more Ana- / -tomy light shadow & perspective would have / set them amongst the first productions of / human talents, M:l Angelo seems to have / taken a hint from Giotto's design executed / in marble basrelief on the Campanile Florence of God / creating Eve, / Taddeo Gaddi / Scholare of Giotto in the historical pictures of / the life of the Virgin in the Church of Santa / at Florence, has followed his Master's / manner of painting: on the walls of the outside / of this church is the Virgin sitting in glory / surrounded by flying Angels, it is perhaps / 40 feet long, in this composition is simple & / grand, the characters innocent & beautiful / & the folds of the draperies marked with intelligence / there is on this wall also a figure of / S:t Xstopher with the infant Jesus on his shoulders I suppose / 16 f:t high with many other figures: [i] preceding word crossed through in brown ink; [ii] preceding three words crossed through in brown ink, following three words above the line; [iii] preceding two words crossed through in brown ink; [iv] word crossed through in brown ink; [v] preceding word crossed through in brown ink, following word above the line verso brown ink in the Corridore of the Duke's Gallery / is a picture of the Virgin teaching[i] with the / Infant Jesus to read, to[ii] on her lap 3 young Angels stand / by teaching him to read, 2 young Angels / fly above placing a crown of light on the Virgin's head, the Composition is Simple / strikingly beautiful & affecting, the Characters / expressive of the utmost sweetness & tenderness / the heads & hands copied with so much diligence / from the finest Nature, that it seems a / divine apparition, a little less hardness in / the outline & a little more knowledge of[iii] light / & shadow would have placed it in my / opinion far beyond any Holy Family of / Raphaels: by Tad:o Gaddi / Andrea & Bernardo / Orcagno / in the pre[iv] Chapple painted by them in Santa Maria Novella, have[v] are represented as you enter on the left God the Father sitting / above, the Virgin sitting under & beneath her / multitudes of Saints & Angels congratulating reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference agent-153239 adlib-agent-153239 d8e74e61-a4a9-37b7-9e13-326601bb5bec Murray, Charles Fairfax 1916 1912 1916-12 given draughtsman reference agent-45771 adlib-agent-45771 b9e1e92c-edf1-3a4c-a4eb-f5fbaae070a3 Flaxman, John reference term-106299 adlib-term-106299 3926a617-f986-3db0-a8cd-7d8071aa7a46 brown ink reference term-101697 adlib-term-101697 613a191a-56ce-3317-8b6e-e5df00e65022 sketchbook reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference term-9168 adlib-term-9168 6b0c59e1-73cc-3b5c-8e54-56f42806ba6f British

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sketchbook pen and brown ink on laid paper reference term-27007 adlib-term-27007 326f020c-e0a2-3e7f-8f96-c7ad94fe8767 handwriting object OBJECT