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Selected drawings from old masters in the University Galleries and the library at Christ Church (1903)

Colvin, Sidney, 1845-1927 · Oxford : Clarendon Press · leaf 2

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Ufe-size, wearing a heavy turban-like cap, the head thrust forward in three-quarters to the right, the brows drawn fiercely down and mouth opened as in the act of yelling with rage. In the right-hand lower corner some tongue or flame-shaped outlines of which the meaning is not clear. This fragment… … drawing for the group of horees still remained in the Sala del Cousiglio : it might quite well have happened that a fragment like this should survive the dispersion or destruction of the rest and find its way at last into Richardson’s collections.** But Richardson’s hope can hardly, in the mind of…

University of Oxford. Christ Church College · Ashmolean Museum · Drawing

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