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Image: Untitled [socle decoration with panels in grotesque]

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Untitled [socle decoration with panels in grotesque]

Mid 16th century
16th century
210 x 390 mm (8 1/4 x 15 3/8 in.)

Anonymous,

Object Type: drawing
Medium and Support: Pen and dark brown ink and brown washes over black chalk
Provenance / Collectors' Marks: Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-1657), Carlo Antonio dal Pozzo (brother of Cassiano, d. 1689), Thence by descent, Cosimo Antonio dal Pozzo (1684-1740), Pope Clement XI Albani (bought 1703), Cardinal Alessandro Albani (bought 1714), King George III (bought 1762), Richard Dalton (Royal Librarian - 1715-1791), John MacGowan (bought from Dalton sale 1791), Charles Townley (1737-1805; bought from both MacGowan 1804 and Dalton 1791 sales), William Stirling-Maxwell (1818-1878): bought from Townley sale 1865; Thence by descent, Phillips London sale, December 12th 1990 lots 219-374, donor acquired through Mia N. Weiner
Bibliography: Phillips Cat. 1990, p. 114f., lot 283; "Renaissane and Later Architecture and Ornament," Volume Two, 2013, page 421 #158, catalogue raisonné by the Royal Collection Trust
Credit Line: Gift of Nason P. Hamlin, BA 1968, and Erica L. Hamlin, MALS 1991
Accession Number: 2022.1.3

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  • architectural drawings - Use for drawings of architecture and drawings for architectural projects, whether the project was executed or not. [June 1998 lead-in term changed, qualifier added to "drawing, architectural"; alternate descriptor changed, qualifier added. August 1993 related term added. April 1992 descriptor moved.]
  • architecture - Art or science of designing and building structures, especially habitable structures, in accordance with principles determined by aesthetic and practical or material considerations. Refers also to the structures created. [November 1994 related term added. October 1990 alternate term added.]
  • designs - Specific conceptual schemes for the organization or appearance of graphic works, objects, structures, or systems. For proposed undertakings or creations in general, including works of art or architecture, or for the actual carrying out of such proposals, use "projects." [May 1993 related term added. January 1991 alternate term added.]
  • details - Use for minute parts of a larger structure, object, or image. For architectural drawings of design or construction details, use "detail drawings." For preparatory studies of pictorial or design details, use "detail studies." [March 1993 descriptor moved.]
  • grotesques - Ornamental motifs including fanciful human and animal forms and floral ornament, based on the decoration of Nero's Domus Aurea in Rome, discovered in 1488.
  • socle - Alternate Term

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