A couple in embrace: 2256

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

A couple in embrace

Maker(s)

Draughtsman: Vecellio, Tiziano

Entities

Drawing

Categories

Drawing

Notes

History note: ?Sir P.P. Rubens; J. Richardson Sr. (Lugt 2183); Ricketts and Shannon

Legal notes

The Ricketts and Shannon Collection. Bequeathed by Charles Shannon, 1937

Measurements and weight

Height: 252 mm
Width: 258 mm

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Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1937) by Shannon, Charles Haslewood

School or Style

Materials used in production

White chalk
Black chalk
Charcoal

Components of the work

Support composed of paper ( blue-grey)

Techniques used in production

Drawing (image-making) : Charcoal and black chalk with white highlights on faded blue-grey paper

Inscription or legends present

Text: an
Location: Below centre
Method of creation: Brown ink

References and bibliographic entries

Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum page(s): 30
Zeichnungen des Tizian page(s): 52
Titian's Drawings page(s): 4-22
Studien zu Handzeichnungen der Italienischen Renaissance page(s): 198
Italian Drawings exhibited at the Royal Academy page(s): 73,
Tizian, Leben und Werk page(s): 215. 217
Tizian-Studien page(s): 186, 192
The Drawings of the Venetian Painters of the 15th and 16th Centuries
Titian: the paintings and Drawings page(s): 407
Venetian Drawings XV - XVIII Centuries page(s): 47
Treasures of Cambridge
Tutta la Pittura di Tiziano page(s): 43
Great Drawings of all Time, Italian School page(s): 215
Tiziano page(s): 333
I disegni dei maestri. La scuola veneta page(s): 89
Ommaggio a Tiziano. Mostra di disegni, lettere e stampe di Tiziano e artisti nordici page(s): 9, 26
Disegni di Tiziano e della sua cerchia page(s): 33, 99
'Disegni di Tiziano: tre mostre a Firenze e a Venezia' page(s): 269
'Three Titian Exhibitions' page(s): 46
'Fondazione Giorgio Cini. Esposizioni: Disegni di Tiziano e della sua cerchia. Tiziano e la silografia veneziana del Cinquecento' page(s): 169
Titian
Tiziano. Disegni page(s): 11
'Jordaens Drawings: Supplement I' page(s): 361
Tarquin and Lucretia, catalogue entry page(s): 230
Titian and his Drawings with Reference to Giorgione and Some Close Contemporaries page(s): 39, 137
Per un catalogo ragionato dei disegni di Tiziano page(s): 34, 60
Tiziano Corpus dei Disegni page(s): 97

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Identification numbers

Accession number: 2256
Primary reference Number: 7960
Lugt: 2183
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 7 June 2022

Associated departments & institutions

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

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            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "A couple in embrace" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/7960 Accessed: 2023-01-26 23:50:17

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            University of Cambridge}}

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