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 verso
Inscriptions: Inscribed "exists in arch./to paint this / picture for 100 ducats 7 eggo, remained at the same / price./ [a line across] / Titian ([illegible]) (alt[?] fresco[?] / the whole backgrd [two illegible words] / [illegible] - angel [illegible] - / picture

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.