Landscape with Tobias and the Angel: PD.115-1961

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Landscape with Tobias and the Angel

Maker(s)

Entities

Drawing

Notes

History note: Benjamin West (Lugt 419), sale, Christie's, fourth day, 13 June 1820, no. 82, as C. Lorrain, Two, Tobit and the Angel and the Finding of Moses, £11-0-6; Sir Thomas Lawrence (Lugt 2445); Sir E.J. Poynter, his sale, Sotheby's, 25 April 1918, no. 215, as Claude, bt. Thomas Agnew and Sons for Charles B.O. Clarke; Louis C.G. Clarke

Legal notes

Bequeathed 1960.

Measurements and weight

Height: 185 mm
Width: 258 mm

Relative size of this object

What does this represent?

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.

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1961) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray

Note

Formerly catalogued as 'Attributed to Adam Elsheimer'

School or Style

Italian

Materials used in production

Brown ink
Brown-grey wash
Black chalk

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Techniques used in production

Drawing (image-making) : Pen, brown ink, brown-grey wash, traces of black chalk, on paper

References and bibliographic entries

Adam Elsheimer page(s): 245
'Pseudo-Claude Drawings' page(s): 192
Adam Elsheimer und sein Kreis page(s): 87
Adam Elsheimer, Maler von Frankfurt page(s): 124
Dutch Drawings at Windsor Castle page(s): 29
German Schools page(s): 41
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Annual Report for the Year ending 31 December 1961
Die Zeichnungen Adam Elsheimers page(s): 134-5
Elsheimers Unverteilter Nachlass page(s): 30-31
Elsheimers Figurenzeichnungen page(s): 201
Adam Elsheimer: paintings, drawings and prints
Drawings from the Collection of Louis C.G. Clarke, LL.D., 1881-1960 page(s): 15/16

Related exhibitions

Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.115-1961
Primary reference Number: 5803
Lugt: 419
Lugt: 2445
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 16 July 2021

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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