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Design for a tazza
Giulio Romano (Giulio Pippi)
(Draughtsman)
History note: Gonzaga family (?); J.C. Robinson, his sale, Christie's, 14 March 1902, part of lot 317, bought by G.T. Clough
Height: 105 mm
Width: 180 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: Given
(1913)
by
Clough, G.T.
A design for a tazza, probably intended as part of a table set commissioned by Federico Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, between 1524-1526
Support: composed of paper
Drawing (image-making) : Pen and brown ink, brown wash, on paper
Inscription present: in the artist's hand
Accession number: 2999B
Primary reference Number: 7406
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2020) "Drawing"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/7406 Accessed: 2021-11-29 15:41:35
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Accession Number: 3002B
Accession Number: 3002A
Accession Number: PD.45-1956
Accession Number: PD.6-1948.f.26
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