The Monk of Beato Angelico
Fra Angelico (Vicchio c.1400 - Rome 1455)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1862
Materials
Pencil, Tracing paper
Measurements
278 mm (H)237 mm (W)
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 872656
Summary
Pencil drawing on tracing paper (portrait drawing); the portrait of a monk, wearing a coat with cowl, three-quarters profile, looking to the right side.
Provenance
At Saltram by 1962 and given to NT as part of the endowment by Montagu Brownlow Parker (1878-1962), 5th Earl of Morley
Marks and inscriptions
bottom right; 'Beato Angelico/ nel Capeleto de S. Marco'
Makers and roles
Fra Angelico (Vicchio c.1400 - Rome 1455), painter Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908), artist