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: 1946.35.57 verso
Inscriptions: Inscribed "[illegible] to have been painted / in the frame. - plain grd / shewing beyond the 'light' / - all the greys apparently / underneath. / - sd up Buonconsigli / [three illegible words] ([?] dello / Venice) / J. Q. dell. O Sacristy / Palma Gio

Interpretation

The inscriptions on this page include references to Palma Giovane (Venetian painter, c.1548-1628), and Giovanni Buonconsiglio (Italian painter, fl. 1495-1530).

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.