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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1998.195
People
Unidentified Artist
Title
Fountain Design
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1525
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Lombardy, Mantua
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299636

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink, brown wash, and black chalk, on off-white antique laid paper
Dimensions
actual: 25.9 x 18.8 cm (10 3/16 x 7 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: along right edge, brown ink, Italian: no[n] volendo fare di pietra dalla i[m]posta di [?] sopra/ [line cut off] [translation: "not wanting to make of stone from the impost [block] above..." [translation by Cammy Brothers, Ph.D candidate, Art History and Architecture Department, 1999]]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
H. (?) N. Baron von Slingelandt. information from B. Weinreb
H. (?) Bosch Reitz, Laren, Netherlands (?), by descent from his great grandfather. Gt. Grandfather: H. (?) N. Baron von Slingelandt; information from B. Weinreb
B. Weinreb Limited, London, sold to Seiden & de Cuevas, Inc., 1980. (Seiden & de Cuevas is now known as Vermeer Associates, Ltd)
Seiden & de Cuevas, Inc., Brampton, Ontario, Canada, purchased from B. Weinreb Limited, London, 6, sold to HUAM, 1998.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of an anonymous donor and the Kate, Maurice R. and Melvin R. Seiden Fund in honor of F. Gordon and Elizabeth Morrill
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
1998.195
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Lynda Fairbairn, Italian Renaissance Drawings from the Collection of Sir John Soane's Museum, Azimuth Editions Ltd. and Sir John Soane's Museum (London, 1998), p. 366

Verification Level

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