Various Figures, partly from Medieaval Sculpture, partly from Ghirlandaio and other Sources
Domenico Ghirlandaio (Florence 1449 - Florence 1494)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1862
Materials
Pencil, Tracing paper
Measurements
309 mm (H)308 mm (H)238 mm (W)242 mm (W)
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Saltram, Devon
NT 872719
Summary
Pencil drawing on tracing paper (costume figure drawing); in the upper row 6 figures, probably of medieval cathedral sculpture, below a group of two working men, a female figure and a group of three men in ecclesiastical dress; upper row; two women, frontal view, crowned and in long medieval dresses, overlength, above them the inscription; 'Reines merovingieunes', right to them; a crowned man in a long shirt, front view, above him the inscription; 'Dagobert /[?]', further right; a young woman, her head slightly inclined, holding a purse, above her head again the inscription; 'Reine merovingeune', further right; two figures, one male, one female, the man holding a biik[?], the woman o role; lower part of sheet; two men working with an machine that seems to be some kind of a squeezer with a funnel that one of them seems to be filling while managing a handle, the other standing left to him holding a long object and looking to the left, right of them in a larger size; a woman seen in its profile looking to the right kneeling down to pray, below her the inscription; 'Figur in ..ss.. [?]', on the right lower corner of the sheet; a group of three man, turned to the right, in the middle a bishop reading in a book, accompanied by two other men in ecclesiastical dresses, below this group the inscription; 'Ghirlandaio/ Figures in La morta de St Francesco'
Provenance
In a portfolio of drawings, sketches and tracings in 1957 and given to NT as part of the endowment by Montagu Brownlow Parker (1878-1962), 5th Earl of Morley.
Makers and roles
Domenico Ghirlandaio (Florence 1449 - Florence 1494) Margaret Holford, Countess of Morley (1855-1908), artist