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The Institution of the Eucharist
Draughtsman: Barocci, Federico
History note: Sir Peter Lely [Lugt 2092]; the Earls of Pembroke at Wilton House; Pembroke sale, Sotheby's, 10 July 1917, lot 381; bought by Private Treaty sale from a British collector through Sotheby's
From the Gow fund, with contributions from the National Art Collections Fund, supported by the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund, 2002.
Height: 515 mm
Width: 355 mm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bought (2002) by Sotheby's
Production date: circa AD 1603
Brown ink
Brown wash
White bodycolour
Black chalk
Support composed of paper ( laid down)
Drawing
: Pen and brown ink, brown wash over black chalk, heightened in white, with selected areas worked up in grisaille oil, squared in black chalk, on paper, laid down on a ?contemporary sheet of paper, laid down on an eighteenth century album leaf, laid down on a nineteenth century mount
Grisaille
Accession number: PD.1-2002
Primary reference Number: 40890
Lugt: 2092
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "The Institution of the Eucharist" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/40890 Accessed: 2023-05-31 21:10:52
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