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A landscape composition, after the landscape of Titian's "Martyrdom of St Peter"
Draughtsman: Tempesta, Pietro, Cavalier
History note: Marquis de Lagoy (1764-1829) (Lugt 1710, twice, in black and blind, bottom R., purchased by Woodburn from Lagoy c. 1820 (?), see under Lugt 1710); Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) (Lugt 2445, bottom left (case 2, drawer 1, according to Lawrence Inventory (typewritten copy in B.M.); S. Woodburn (1786-1853); Woodburn's sale, Christie's, (8th June), 1860, lot 963, bt. Morant (£4.4.0); R.P. Roupell (1798-1886) (Lugt 2234, inscription in his hand and with his initials, preserved on backing); Roupell Sale, Christie's, 12 July 1887, lot 858, bt. Knowles (£2 10s 0d); Sir James Knowles (1831-1908) his sale, Christie's, 27 May 1908, lot 180, together with another drawing, bt. Clough (£1 10s 0d)
Height: 420 mm
Width: 300 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.
Or possibly Carlo Antonio Tavella
Brown ink
Brown wash
Whitening
Support composed of paper (fibre product) ( stuck down, various creases and damage, mainly in centre and at bottom right)
Drawing (image-making) : Point of the brush, brown ink and brown wash, heightened with white (partly oxidised), on paper, stuck down
Inscription present: partly obliterated
Accession number: 3156
Primary reference Number: 7966
Lugt: 1710
Lugt: 2445
Lugt: 2234
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Paintings, Drawings and Prints
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Accession Number: 621
Accession Number: 3122
Accession Number: 154
Accession Number: M.37
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