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Allegory of Sight
Draughtsman: Goltzius, Hendrik
History note: Julian G. Lousada, sold Sotheby's, 7 March 1947, lot 24 (as a study for a 'Diana'), bt. P. & D. Colnaghi; from whom bought by Sir Bruce Ingram (Lugt 1405a), June 1947
Height: 316 mm
Width: 207 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: Bequeathed (1963) by Ingram, Bruce Stirling, Sir
1598 CE - 1600 CE
One of a series of the Five Senses. 'Touch' is in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; 'Taste' is in the Metropolitan Museum, New York; 'Smell' is in the collection of Eugene Thaw, New York; 'Hearing' is in a private collection in Belgium. The figure has been variously identified as Juno, Diana and Venus.
Grey wash
Whitening
Black chalk
Support composed of paper
Drawing : Black chalk and grey wash, heightened with white, traces of colour, on paper
Accession number: PD.355-1963
Primary reference Number: 4670
Lugt: 1405a
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Allegory of Sight" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/4670 Accessed: 2023-06-01 16:46:10
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Accession Number: PD.27-1949
Accession Number: P.73-1940
Accession Number: 1050.30
Accession Number: PD.41-1992
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