St Matthew: 3006A

Current Location: In storage

Titles

St Matthew

Maker(s)

Entities

Drawing

Notes

History note: Padre Sebastiano Resta (Lugt 2992); Giovanni Marchetti, Bishop of Arezzo; Cavaliere Marchetti da Pistoia; sold through John Talman in 1710 to John, Lord Somers; Paul Sandby; Rev. Thomas Kerrich; Rev. R.E. Kerrich

Legal notes

Bequeathed by the Rev. R. E. Kerrich 1872 (received 1873)

Measurements and weight

Height: 162 mm
Width: 150 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 (1873) by Kerrich, Richard Edward

Note

Verso: see s.v. Fra Angelico.

School or Style

Italian

Materials used in production

Green wash
Brown ink
Brown wash
Whitening

Components of the work

Support composed of prepared paper

Techniques used in production

Drawing : Pen and brown ink, point of the brush and brown wash, heightened with white on green prepared paper

Inscription or legends present

Text: 1383
Location: Upper left
Method of creation: Brown ink
Type: Date

Text: 1455
Location: Upper right
Method of creation: Brown ink

Inscription present: erased, the first line over an erased brown ink inscription which may read as below

Text: Amore mai more / Ama
Location: Upper right of centre
Method of creation: Gold ink

Inscription present: erased

Text: (?)Amor non moritur
Location: Upper right of centre
Method of creation: Brown ink

Text: g.25
Location: Lower right
Method of creation: Brown ink

References and bibliographic entries

Mss Resta-Somers Collection
Mss. Catalogue of the Kerrich Collection page(s): 17
[Vasari Society, 2nd Series] page(s): 5
Italian Drawings exhibited at the Royal Academy page(s): 8
'Two Drawings by Bennozzo Gozzoli' page(s): 214 ff.
'Sebastiano Resta and his collections' page(s): 11
Drawings of the Florentine Painters page(s): 5, 8-9
Corpus der Italienischen Zeichnungen,
Fra Angelico page(s): 234/5
Benozzo Gozzoli page(s): 34

Related exhibitions

Identification numbers

Accession number: 3006A
Primary reference Number: 7451
Lugt: 2992
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Wednesday 17 May 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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