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Allegory of Temperance
Draughtsman: Peruzzi, Baldassare
History note: Sir Peter Lely (Lugt 2092); Prosper Henry Lankrink (Lugt 2090); Earls of Pembroke, sale, Sotheby's, July 9 1917, no. 397/5 (as 'School of Raphael'); Mr & Mrs J.J. Strauss, their Sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 1970, lot 9; Lorriano Bertini, Prato; Miss Yvonne Tan Bunzl
Height: 320 mm
Width: 185 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 (1988) by Yvonne Tan Bunzl
Brown ink
Brown wash
Pink wash
Whitening
Red chalk
Support composed of paper
Drawing : Pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white, over traces of red chalk, lightly squared for transfer, on pink prepared paper
Accession number: PD.1-1988
Primary reference Number: 7698
Lugt: 2092
Lugt: 2090
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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Accession Number: C.36-1930
Accession Number: MAR.M.39-1912
Accession Number: 4062
Accession Number: P.282-1948
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