Sheet of Notes

Drawing details

Title: Sheet of Notes
Date: c.1872-73
Media: Silverpoint on paper
Dimensions: 12.3 x 7.2 cm
Location: Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Picture credit: Courtesy of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Fund
Reference number: 1946.35.5
Inscriptions: Inscribed "Ashridge / L. da Vinci / Sir Josh [illegible] Abraham Hume / les [illegible] / Snyder, Stork + fox / Gio Bellini? (il) [illegible] / [illegible] Rembrandt - Dutch / philosopher with bust / of Homer" in silverpoint, in the artist's hand.

Interpretation

The inscriptions on this page include references to Giovanni Bellini (Italian Renaissance painter, c.1430-1516), 'Portrait of Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Bt' (1783) (listed in 1876 'Catalogue of Pictures at Ashridge') by Sir Joshua Reynolds (painter, 1749-1838) and 'Aristotle with a Bust of Homer' (1653) by Rembrandt Van Rijn (Dutch painter, draughtsman and engraver, 1606-1669).

Description

Page from a sketchbook. 

Provenance

Purchased by the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, from Geoffrey Steele (antiquarian bookseller, c.1907-2000) from his bookshop at RFD 1, Mahopac, New York, in 1946 for $6.00.