Sheet of Notes

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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: 1946.35.55
Inscriptions: Inscribed "being used on the top of [illegible] / - I am more and more / convinced that Tit only[?] / painted on grey - / Great Romanino Pav[?] / from St. Giustina - ground[word crossed out] / pure white - grd perle grey / ut. supr.[?] / Pa[?, word c

Interpretation

These inscriptions are notes on the method of Titan. They include reference to the Basilica of St. Guistina (St Guistina Cathedral) in Padua, and Girolamo Romanino (Italian painter, c.1484 - c.1559).

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.