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: 1946.35.58
Inscriptions: Inscribed "Sd up. Hef. Fenaca [illegible] / do. Salviati (Salute, Venice) / Titian Ch. S. Rocco - Venice V[letter crossed out] / Judas / grd not absorbent - shewing / white or nearly, where scratches / [illegible] preparation uniform / - cool grey -

Interpretation

The inscriptions on this page include references to Francesco de'Rossi Salviati (Florentine Mannerist painter, 1510-1563) and Basilica di S. Maria della Salute, Venice.

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.