A critical account of the drawings by Michel Angelo and Raffaello in the University Galleries, Oxford (1870)
Robinson, J. C · Oxford : Clarendon Press · leaf 185
DRAWINGS BY RAFFAELLO. 150 The drawing bears the Antaldi initials R. V. in con- spicuous characters in the right-hand corner, and it is perhaps the drawing described in the Antaldi Catalogue (see Appendix) as 'Una Madonna in quarto di foglio reale col bambino e S. Gio. fatto d' acquerella del medmo… … drawing, presented a similarly absorbent surface ; drawings with the point" of the brush were, nevertheless, often made on them. It will easily be conceived that long exercise in a peculiar style of handwork suggested the employment of the same method, when there was no absolute necessity for it,…
