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Drawing, Design for Grotesque Decoration, mid–late 16th century
This is a Drawing. It is dated mid–late 16th century and we acquired it in 1994. Its medium is pen and brown ink on laid paper, mounted on laid paper. It is a part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design department.
This object was
fund:
General Acquisitions Endowment: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department Deaccession Fund.
It is credited Museum purchase through gift of the Misses Leupp and Mary Turlay Robinson and from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund.
- Print, Strapwork Grotesque with Mythological Scene, 1566
- engraving on laid paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John I. Kane.
- 1944-83-7-2
- Print, Plate 24, from Grotteßco: in diverßche manieren (Various...
- etching on laid paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
- 1945-59-12
- Drawing, Design for Grotesque Decoration, mid–late 16th century
- pen and brown ink, black chalk on off-white laid paper, mounted on laid paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of the Misses Leupp and Mary Turlay Robinson and....
- 1994-64-1
Our curators have highlighted 3 objects that are related to this one.
- Drawing, Project for a painted panel, ca. 1774–1801
- pen and ink with water color washes on paper.
- 1956-199-3
- Nymph and Satyr Sculpture, ca. 1925
- H x W x D: 39.5 x 48 x 6.5 cm (15 9/16 x 18 7/8 x 2 9/16 in.).
- Gift of Stanley Siegel, from the Stanley Siegel Collection.
- 1975-32-5
- Print, Plate 17, from Grotteßco in diverßche manieren (Various Grotesques),...
- etching on laid paper.
- Museum purchase through gift of Mrs. John Innes Kane.
- 1945-59-5
Its dimensions are
Mat: 71.1 × 55.9 cm (28 × 22 in.) H x W: 17.9 × 9.2 cm (7 1/16 × 3 5/8 in.) matted with 1994-64-1 and 1994-64-3
It is inscribed
Inscribed in graphite by a later hand, lower right of mount (bearing 3 drawings, -1-2-3): Gianantonio da Brescria/cf. Nicola Modena; at lower right on mount beneath each drawing, 13.5x8.0 cm (top); 179x92 mm (LL); 173 x 107 mm (LR). Numbers partially erased beneath each drawing on mount at LL, 44 233/44 233a/44 233b. Numerals in graphite at lower left of mount sheet: 286 /inv 1g 87 (?); lower right, 100
Cite this object as
Drawing, Design for Grotesque Decoration, mid–late 16th century; Italy; pen and brown ink on laid paper, mounted on laid paper; Mat: 71.1 × 55.9 cm (28 × 22 in.) H x W: 17.9 × 9.2 cm (7 1/16 × 3 5/8 in.) matted with 1994-64-1 and 1994-64-3; Museum purchase through gift of the Misses Leupp and Mary Turlay Robinson and from Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program Fund; 1994-64-2
This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Fragile Beasts.
