Sacred and secular subjects. Album of woodcuts by Florentine artists, 15--.

Date:
1500-1599
Reference:
2922242i
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Description

Italian woodcuts, most of which appear to be from Florence, 16th century, tipped in pages ruled as a ledger and sewn together, possibly in the 19th century

Publication/Creation

1500-1599

Physical description

1 album (28 leaves, 34 prints) : woodcuts ; album 36.7 x 26 cm

References note

G.T. Clough, 'Some Florentine woodcuts', The Burlington magazine, August 1905, 7: 355-360

Reference

Wellcome Collection 2922242i

Creator/production credits

Album possibly compiled by George Thomas Clough, secretary to Angela, Baroness Burdett-Coutts, and collector of drawings and prints. He gave 85 drawings to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, in 1913, and 256 old master prints to Manchester Whitworth Institute in 1921, selling the remainder at auction at Sotheby's that year (British Museum online catalogue). Cf. woodcuts described in his article, op. cit.

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